About Praxis Circle Network
Praxis Circle Network (PCN) is an Ecumenical Ministry consisting of persons who are Authentic, Prophetic, Transformative, and Competent in possessing practical tools of Christ and culture.
The mission of Praxis Circle Network is to facilitate venues for the purpose of enlightening and inspiring all ethnicities to move forward in faith, hope, forgiveness, reconciliation, justice, healing, sustaining grace of God, and the will to be unbridled; while using practical tools of Christ and culture as a means of searching for balance between the secular and the sacred.
Meet the PCN Founder and
Conference Executive Director
Rev. Dr. Essie Clark-George, Founder
Meet the PCN Conference Leadership Team
Meet The PCN Conference Workshop Facilitators and Panelists
Meet the General Session Speakers
Rev. Dr. Danielle J. Buhuro
Executive Director & ACPE Certified Educator /CPE Supervisor, Rev. Dr. Danielle J. Buhuro is Founder, Executive Director, and ACPE Certified Educator at Sankofa CPE Center, LLC. She is certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE). She was also board certified in the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). Rev. Dr. Buhuro is an ordained clergy with ministerial standing in the Illinois Conference’s Chicago Metropolitan of the United Church of Christ (UCC). Dr. Buhuro is married and is passionate about issues of race, gender and sexuality. She attended Chicago Theological Seminary, where she the Master of Divinity and Doctory of Ministry degrees respectively. She is currently a Ph.D student studying in the area of social media identity, violence and pastoral theology. Rev. Dr. Buhuro is the author of Spiritual Care In An Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Examining the Spiritual and Prophetic Needs of African Americans Living In A Violent America.
Rev. Dr. Orenthia Mason
Rev. Dr. Orenthia Mason currently serves Presiding Elder for the North Tyler Texas District in the Eighth Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) where Senior Bishop Lawrence L. Reddick, III preside. Presiding Elder Mason was called to preach at age 15 is an ordained elder in full connection in the CME Church with 30 years of pastoral experience and now serve as supervisor of 20 churches in the Tyler District. Rev. Dr. Mason is a fifth-generation minister in the CME Church. She was an administrator in education for 26 years, served on North Tyler Texas school board afterward for 15 years Tyler Texas School System. Rev. Dr Mason is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, a member of the CME Church Connectional Board, a member of CME General Conferences from 1976-2022 and Vice Chair of the Episcopal Committee of General Conference 2022. Rev. Dr. Mason is single and enjoying her journey.
Rev. Dr. Delois Brown Daniels
Reverend Dr. Delois Brown Daniels is a certified educator in the association of clinical pastoral education, a board-certified chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains, an ordained minister in the American Baptist Church, author, preacher, workshop leader, wife and mother. Rev. Dr. Brown Daniels served as a vice president within the Advocate Health Care from 1994 to early 2017 when she retired. She currently serves on the ministerial staff at First Baptist Church of Chicago where she serves as a worship leader and is also adjunct faculty at McCormick theological seminary where she teaches in the Doctorate of Pastoral Care and Counseling Program. Presently, she is president of the minister’s council of ABC Metro Chicago Ministers Council. She is the wife of Doctor David Daniels, III the Henry Luce Professor of Church History at McCormick Theological Seminary and the mother of two children Deandrea Daniels Lamar and David Daniel IV.
Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis
Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis was a United Church of Christ, (UCC) pastor and is the pastor emeritus of God Can Ministry UCC in Chicago, IL. Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis serves as an affiliate professor at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago where teachers course such as Sexual and Domestic Violence, Pastoral Care in Time of Crises and Pastoral Care in the African American Communities. She is also a retired Chicago police officer of 31 years serving in the Patrol Division, the Crime Laboratory and upon retirement she served as one of their full-time Chicago police chaplains, serving police officers and their families especially in time of crisis. Dr. Ellis Davis is a recognized speaker on issues of Domestic Violence especially as it intersects with race, class, gender, culture, and the Criminal Justice System (CJS). She is the author of Battered African American Women a study in Gender Entrapment, and she is the author of The Trauma of Sexual and Domestic Violence. She is married to Dr. Edward Smith Davis, Conference Minister of the UCC.
Rev. Dr. Regina L. Reese-Young, Guest Worship Leader
Regina L. Reese-Young was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. This inspirational Woman of God has 43 years of ministry experience standing for social justice, supporting those in need, speaking truth to power and welcomes every opportunity to help others in the Body of Christ to grow in their faith! She has pastored and assisted in the pastoral leadership of churches across the country and currently serves as Sr. Pastor of the Phillips Memorial CME Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Music has always been central to her and was further enhanced when she came into the knowledge of its significance in Praise and Worship! Dr. Reese-Young is an “Unapologetic Worshipper” who takes great delight in ushering the people of God into the presence of God. Although she has been blessed to receive numerous awards and honors, she believes that the greatest title that she was bestowed was “Mother” and “Grandmother.” She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.