Tag: People

The St. Petersburg Times reports on the work of the Rev. John Kivuva, 45, a priest at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church and part-time chaplain at

The host of Public Radio International’s Speaking of Faith found herself on the other side of the interviewer’s mike recently, in a profile on PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. The show won a Peabody award this week, and the R&E piece took a closer look at what Krista Tippett allows might be “a ministry of listening rather than preaching”:

Forty years after King was gunned down by an assassin in Memphis, it is this sharper-edged figure who has come into focus again. To mark today’s anniversary, several scholarly reports have been released charting the nation’s uneven social and economic progress during the past 40 years. Some scholars and former King associates are using the occasion to zero in on the two issues — war and poverty — that were consuming him at the time of his death

This month’s Washingtonian has a feature with vignettes exploring the bonds of friendship between several pairs of best friends, among them retired Washington Bishop Jane Holmes Dixon and WAMU talk-show host Diane Rehm, who have been friends since meeting at church 40 years ago. When Rehm got word of an “Expanding Horizons for Women” adult-ed course at George Washington University in the 1970s, she nudged Dixon to join her.

Henrietta Bell Wells, the only woman, the only freshman and the last surviving member of the 1930 Wiley College debate team that participated in the first interracial collegiate debate in the United States, died on Feb. 27 in Baytown, Tex. She was 96. Other debates with white schools followed, culminating with Wiley’s 1935 victory over the national champion, the University of Southern California.

If you read last week the letter from Bishop Sisk giving advance warning of a forthcoming story from the New Yorker in which Honor Moore recounts details of her father’s private life–an excerpt from the late Bishop Paul Moore’s daughter’s forthcoming autobiographical work–you might be wondering, so, ok, there’s the horse, but where’s the cart?