The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing isn’t missing a beat in transitioning from into new leadership following the retirement of founding executive director, Dr. Catherine Meeks.
The pages of history leap onto the vibrant canvas of Christ the King Episcopal Church and Mack Park as the community paid homage to the trailblazers of civil rights with a mural, dedicated to commemorating influential figures in civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and justice advocacy.
A new documentary video about lost African American communities, created with support from The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, documents the effect of displacement upon African Americans in Atlanta.
In this episode, Bishop Wright has a conversation with Canon Martini Shaw, 17th Rector of The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, the congregation founded by Absalom Jones. They discuss Absalom’s story that led to the founding of St. Thomas and how his legacy is lived out today.
The life of the first Black Episcopal priest is a blueprint for building an active faith life, Bishop Rob Wright said during the annual Absalom Jones commemoration. The February 19 service, sponsored annually by The Union of Black Episcopalians, was held this year at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Decatur.
In the first Feedback Friday episode of Closer Look in 2023, host Rose Scott talks with Dr. Catherine Meeks, Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing.
In celebration of and thanksgiving for the life and ministry of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I thought I would try and distill a couple of reasons he gave for us to stay steadfastly hopeful.
"The opposite of faith isn't doubt - it's absolute certainty" - Bishop Deon Johnson In this episode, Bishop Wright has a conversation with Bishop Deon Johnson, 11th Bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri. They talk about dignity and share stories of grandmothers and Bishop Deon's favorite life lesson. Bishop Deon also shares his good news of being a gay Black man in the highest level of leadership in The Episcopal Church. He speaks with kind candor to what he reads in the bible including its history and context. Listen Here Bishop Deon Kevin Johnson was elected on November 23, 2019 as...
ATLANTA - Dr. Catherine Meeks, founding executive director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, on August 26, received The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Volunteer Service Award medal during a ceremony at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel on the campus of Morehouse College. Dr. Meeks was also recognized for being a frequent media guest commentator on racial healing, editor of Living into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America, and co-author of Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as a Prophet of our Times. Following the...
Opening of The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, October 2017. (pictured left to right) The Right Rev. Robert C. Wright, Bishop of Atlanta; Center founding director Catherine Meeks, PhD., The Right Rev. Victor Atta-Baffoe, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast, Ghana; The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. Photo: Don Plummer. ATLANTA (July 15, 2022) - As The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta celebrates its fifth anniversary this year it is expanding its Advisory Board. Since opening in October 2017, the...
