R.E.M. is turning 45 years old this Saturday, which is a perfect time to take a trip to its hometown. Let’s just say, you can get there from here. All it takes is the right frame of mind. You don’t take a trip to Athens. You make a pilgrimage.
A number of publishers of Christian formation resources release new Vacation Bible School and camp program curricula every year. For some communities, these full-fledged kits with a host of materials like lesson plans, multimedia resources, decoration ideas, and craft guides serve program directors’ needs, goals, and budgets well. Living God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism for Children is on the list.
The Rev. Ann Barker has been a priest for 20 years. Two of her special interests are Christian education and pastoral care. Before being called to the priesthood, she was a magazine editor for 12 years.
Bishop Wright spoke as the House of Bishops weeklong meeting in Nauvoo, Ala., wrapped up. The date coincided with the anniversary of March 21, 1965 escorted civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in support of voting rights.
Following their study of James Cone’s work The Cross and the Lynching Tree, the Christ Church Episcopal Norcross racial healing book group recently made a pilgrimage to Selma and Montgomery to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
The Rev. Ann Barker has been a priest for 20 years. Two of her special interests are Christian education and pastoral care. Before being called to the priesthood, she was a magazine editor for 12 years.
Christ Church was founded on March 5, 1825, by a reverend named Lot Jones who was on a missionary tour of Georgia, according to the Georgia Historical Society. At the time of Christ Church’s founding, Macon was in its infancy. It had been created two years before as a frontier town after the U.S. government forcibly removed the Creek Indians from their native land, according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
The Rev. Canon Dr. Angela F. Shepherd is the seventh rector of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church – Atlanta, GA, a congregation deeply committed to radical hospitality, social justice, Christian formation, worship, and music.
The University of the South’s School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee, hosted a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges The Episcopal Church faces in a contemporary cultural landscape.