Tory K. Baucum (born 1960) is the director for the

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Center for Family Life, Atchison, Kansas, US. After 30 years of ministry as

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pastor, seminary and university professor, he and his wife converted to the

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. They were prepared by Father Dominic Legge, O.P. and Pastor Paul Scalia of the Arlington Diocese and received by Archbishop Joseph Naumann of

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, KS. During the 20th century, Baucum served as pastor of Truro Church, an Anglican church in Virginia. He and Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia settled an ongoing lawsuit over ownership of the Truro property after the Anglican church left the Episcopal church. The Anglican congregation remained in the historic building rent-free with a commitment to maintain the property. The intrareligious dialogue between Baucum and Johnston was highlighted in the Catholic Journal, Commonweal and featured in Easter edition of the ''New York Times''. Although congregants referred to Baucum as a "peacemaker", some Anglican bishops criticized Baucum's closeness to the Episcopal denomination and friendship with Johnston. The intrareligious work continued with the establishment of a Peace Institute and an ecumenical board made up of Jews, Black Pentecostals, Catholics and Episcopalians such as Rev. Eugene Rivers, Rabbi Marc Gopin and Bishop Shannon Johnston. Baucum resigned from his position at Truro Anglican Church in November, 2019. Shortly before Baucum resigned his ministry to convert to Catholicism, staff at the Truro Church sent a letter to the

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, complaining about the work environment under Baucum. After Baucum’s conversion to Catholicism, he continued the work he began with Rivers, Gopin and Johnston. On a reconciliation trip to Poland, the government commended Gopin and Baucum and invited them to continue consulting and building up domestic church leaders to counteract the effects of Putin’s Christian Nationalist war on

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. Baucum works on a comprehensive vision of peace with the family as the basis of peace in the church, society and world internationally, all on display in

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’s current domestic church mission. The work begun in Virginia continues in Kansas. On February 19 2023, Baucum was inducted to the Copernican Academy In

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Poland.

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