February 12, 2021 – Episcopal Cafe

Fragments on Fragments #34: Being Human in a Pandemic

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President Obama often used a phrase of Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”. But it appears that King was paraphrasing a portion of a sermon delivered in 1853 by the abolitionist minister Theodore Parker. Parker said: “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.”

Sewanee Vice Chancellor Faces Abuse

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(note: Updated mid-afternoon on 2/12 with a statement from the Chancellor, the Rt. Rev. Robert Skirving.) The Tennessean reports that vandals have recently targeted the

Student and Servant

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“Sometimes, though, studying and serving can have difficult consequences. Although Andrews played a premier role in the beginning steps of Indian independence, there came a time that Gandhi, the teacher, had to tell Andrews that it was time for him to step aside and leave the rest of the struggle to Indians.”

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