‘The “senior salute” was not part of the culture when I attended St. Paul’s from 1997 to 2000, nor was it around for students who graduated just five years ago.’
He is honored for his article “Wake the Devil from His Dream: Thomas Dudley, Quincy Ewing, Religion, and the ‘Race Problem’ in the Jim Crow South” published in the December 2014 issue of Anglican and Episcopal History. The selection committee noted the article makes excellent use of primary and secondary sources to create two portraits in a landscape of racial division that we, sadly, still recognize today.
About a month before his diagnosis with an aggressive brain and lung cancer, Stokes spoke at the unveiling of a marker commemorating the role of St John’s Episcopal Church, Ohio City, in the Underground Railroad. It was known as Station Hope.
According to government archives, today is the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US constitution, allowing women the right to vote.
In a sermon punctuated by laughter, applause, and poignant silence, the Rt Revd Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church, fired up attendees at the 19th Annual Jonathan Daniels and Martyrs of Alabama Pilgrimage in Hayneville, AL, on August 15th.
In his letter, Hall says that the work he envisions for the cathedral will take dedicated leadership over the next decade or more. He is retiring now, he says, earlier than anticipated, rather than disrupt that effort midway through
A mission founded by a “legendary” Episcopal priest is profiled by local media in Utah, some seventy years after it began.
“Far more troubling than simple income inequality, our nation is being turned into a patchwork of concentrated advantage juxtaposed with concentrated disadvantage. The incomes and lives of generation after generation are being locked into terrifyingly divergent trajectories.”
The provincial delegate and the churchwide delegates will be able to attend the official UNCSW proceedings at the United Nations and will represent The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion in their advocacy at the UN, including joint advocacy with the group Ecumenical Women.
The Word is a podcast that talks to prominent figures about their life and faith through the lens of their favorite Bible verses. Today, they talk to Katharine Welby-Roberts, who became known as the ABCD (Archbishop of Canterbury’s daughter), after her father’s election and her enthusiastic tweeting thereafter.