Essay: How Martin Luther King, Jr, foresaw Mississippi’s new Episcopal Black bishop
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOE MCDANIEL, co-chair for the Commission on Racial Justice & Reconciliation for the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, says King contrasted Mississippi’s past with his optimistic vision of the state as an “oasis of freedom and justice”…
Mississippi’s new Episcopal bishop is first woman and first Black person in that role
Jackson, Mississippi, US AP The new bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi was being formally installed Saturday, and she is first woman and first Black person to hold the post. Rev Dorothy Sanders Wells was elected bishop in February and has been in the leadership role since May. She is being ordained and consecrated […]