MLK Weekend and Black History Month 2024

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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?

The 2024 Bicentennial Historical Lectures (Week 1) — Led by Prof. Jon Butler, Yale University

1905: The Burning of Saint Thomas and the Crisis of Religion in Modern Manhattan

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This talk is part of the 2024 Bicentennial Historical Lectures.

The fire that destroyed Saint Thomas Church in August 1905 (which tragically repeated the 1851 burning of Saint Thomas’s original sanctuary) plunged the congregation into a double crisis.