Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Can Episcopal Church's first black leader heal racial divides?

From Christian Science Monitor-

Declaring that "God has work for us to do," Bishop Michael Curry was installed as the Episcopal Church's first black leader Monday at the Washington National Cathedral, accepting the ceremonial crozier from outgoing Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Church's first female leader.

According to Bishop Curry, the welcome his family found decades ago at the Episcopal Church, which is 83 percent white, set into motion his own journey toward the priesthood, when his mother was handed the same communion chalice as the white parishioners. ...


More here-

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/1102/Can-Episcopal-Church-s-first-black-leader-heal-racial-divides

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