A landmark beginning
October 5, 2008
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A statement from the President of the House of Deputies, Bonnie Anderson. The Episcopal Church spent two days in solemn observance and belated repentance for
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Minns and his friends
September 18, 2008
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Read what Bishop Martyn Minns of the Church of Nigeria had to say at the Value Voters Summit last week. The speech was covered in World Magazine, which is edited by Marvin Olasky.
Seeking answers in a summer of pilgrimages
August 29, 2008
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Why is there so much at stake in the dispute about gay folk and their lives that it threatens to split the church and deepen the rift in American society? Here are some of the responses I have been working on: it isn’t really about sex, it’s all about power. It feels safer to wrangle about sex acts and tease out the sticky threads of disputed interpretations of Leviticus and the authority of the Bible than it is to talk about systems of privilege.
Maryland to consecrate its first African-American bishop
June 27, 2008
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Canon Eugene Sutton, who will be consecrated tomorrow as the state’s first African-American bishop, is the great-great-grandson of slaves. Maryland’s first bishop, the Right Rev. Thomas John Claggett, was a slaveowner.
How far we have come
June 7, 2008
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Colbert I. King, an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, writes today about what he considers a remarkable week, imagining how mid-19th century Episcopal priest Alexander Crummell might view Obama’s nomination. But that’s perhaps the most visible development that would please Crummell, who, as an African American, founded two Episcopal parishes in the District of Columbia in the 19th century that continue to this day, nearly 150 years later.
Celebrating Justice Marshall
May 16, 2008
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The Diocese of Washington is proposing that the Episcopal Church add the name of Thurgood Marshall to its sacramental calendar. The proposed date is May 17, the anniversary of his victory in the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. But you can use these resources at any time.
Mildred Loving dies
May 5, 2008
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Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.
Unknown Child
April 28, 2008
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While gathering paperwork to get our son registered for kindergarten a few weeks ago, I came across the hospital record of his birth in San Francisco. Beneath his gender designation, length, and weight at birth was his racial designation in big-block capitals: UNKNOWN. It stopped me dead in my tracks.
On being an ally
April 26, 2008
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The author, James Baldwin spoke about the danger of allies with savior complexes. Have any of us had experiences with allies who thought of their role in that way? Have we fallen into that mode of acting ourselves?
Exploring a shameful legacy
April 24, 2008
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Christ Church in Philadelphia is in the midst of a public examination of its slave-holding past, and plans “regular dramatic enactments of slaves and slaveholders, Founding Fathers and chattel, and slave-owning abolitionists.” The presentations are scheduled to begin May 1.
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