Tag: Holy Women Holy Men

Standing Commission clarifies calendar

July 5, 2016 3 Comments

“Lesser Feasts and Fasts, last published in 2006, remains the Episcopal Church’s official calendar of optional commemorations.”

Tubman will be the face of the $20 bill

April 20, 2016 7 Comments

In 1995, preaching on a text from the Book of Exodus, Father Curry reminded the congregation that Harriet Tubman is remembered as “the Moses of her people” for her role in freeing slaves. “There’s always a new Pharaoh,” Father Curry said. “He takes many disguises . . . making slaves of the children of God.”

Speaking to the Soul: Frederick Douglass

February 20, 2016 No Comments

The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

Artemisia Bowden: Holy Woman

November 10, 2015 No Comments

“We give you praise for the gifts of perseverance, teaching and wisdom made manifest in your servant, Artemisia Bowden, whom you called far from home for the sake of educating the daughters and granddaughters of former slaves in Texas.”

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