Rev. Charlotte Cramer
Interspiritual Minister.
Community Chaplain.
Social-Spiritual Innovator.
Charlotte Cramer walks between worlds.
The mystical and the ordinary, suffering and deep joy, grief and healing, embodiment and out-of-body.
As founder of Temple of the Forgotten, she brings rigorous training, deep compassion, and a radically inclusive spirituality to those most often left out of sacred spaces.
Charlotte's path into ministry didn't begin in a seminary — it began in a life fully lived. After dropping out of college, she began as a farmer and soon moved through several spiritual communities and immersed herself in the mystical traditions of multiple faiths, arriving eventually at a multi-faith worldview that refuses to exclude anyone.
She pursued her formal training with the same depth: earning a Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Chaplaincy from Starr King School for the Ministry, becoming an ordained minister and certified chaplain with The Chaplaincy Institute, and completing four Clinical Pastoral Education units through The Shaw Chaplaincy Institute.
Her ministry began in Marin County, California, where she started working directly with people experiencing homelessness and incarceration. She built weekly spiritual programs inside county jails, led grief rituals and memorials, and began listening — really listening — to hundreds of people the world had written off. That work brought her to Portland, Oregon, where she continues today.
Charlotte teaches, preaches, and trains across the West Coast, offering workshops on spiritual care for the unhoused, addiction, poverty bias, and the radical practice of deep listening. She believes that spirituality is not a luxury — it is a human right.
