Kipp Gilmore-Clough

Kipp has been an Elder in the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church since 2003. He served Cheltenham United Methodist Church from 2003-2007 and was the interim pastor at Solebury United Methodist Church for eight months in 2013-2014. Other work experience includes serving as a foster care social worker, a hospice care social worker, and an interlude as the interim pastor of Germantown Mennonite Church. He earned a Ph.D. from the Temple University Department of Religion, focusing on liberal Protestantism and American religious history. In addition to his congregational work, he is an adjunct professor of religion Rutgers University - Camden.

Kipp has lived in the Philadelphia area since 1996. He enjoys being active but also likes to lose himself in a good novel or volume of poetry. Music and singing are among his greatest joys in life, and, when time allows, he brews (and shares) his own beer.