In the wake of bishop Michael Curry’s sermon at the recent royal wedding, Grant Shreve offers us a brief introduction, with scholarly links, to the African American experience in the Anglican Church. Here is a taste of his piece at […]
Episcopalian history
When Removing Monuments Strengthens Our Knowledge of the Past
Earlier this week we posted on Kate Shellnut’s Christianity Today article on the way that churches in the South are dealing with their Confederate legacy and monuments. Since I wrote that post I learned about similar efforts at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church […]
How a Church With a History of Slavery is Dealing With Its Past
Cathedral of St. John’s–Providence, R.I. According to this New York Times article, over half of the slavery voyages from the United States left from Rhode Island ports. Most of those Rhode Island slave traders were Episcopalians (Anglicans). Katherine Seelye describes what […]
The Author’s Corner with Gustav Niebuhr
Gustav Niebuhr is Associate Professor in Religion & the Media at Syracuse University. This interview is based on his new book Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, a Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors (June 2014, HarperOne). JF: What […]