Next Sunday, January 14, as part of the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we will welcome The Rev. Dr. Brandt Montgomery as our preacher at the 11am service.
The theme for the morning will be ‘Building the Beloved Community’ and Fr. Montgomery will also lead the 10am Sunday Theology Talk. We encourage you to come to the class and then join us for the liturgy. The class will also be made available on-demand.
Over the following weeks, in preparation for Black History Month, we invite parishioners to reflect on what it means to them to belong to a church that is a beloved community. In the old prayer book, the priest often addressed the congregation as ‘dearly beloved;’ what is our response to that invitation which is so old and part of our Anglican identity?
On the federal holiday, the Choir School community will, once again, devote the day to making food parcels with Rise Against Hunger.
In February, Pamela Lewis will write about the four images of ‘emancipators’ that Dr. Morris (the tenth Rector) and the Vestry placed on the tower during the civil rights movement: William Wilberforce; Abraham Lincoln; Martin Luther King Jr.; Mary McLeod Bethune.
