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In her autobiographical book of essays, “M Train” (Vintage Books, 2015), poet and musician Patti Smith writes powerfully of love, loss and the capriciousness of fate. The chapters in which she describes losing her husband, fellow musician Fred “Sonic” Smith,…
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[Washington Window] Though he has taken a bold stand as a gay rights activist in his native Uganda, where homosexuality is considered a crime, Bishop Christopher Senyonjo is no firebrand. He simply believes that homosexuality should be universally decriminalized, and…
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[Washington Window] The Christmas story is probably the best known narrative on earth. For the world’s 2 billion Christians these are “the stories of our tribe,” author and theologian Marcus Borg told a group of diocesan clergy last Advent. “It…
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[Washington Window] Bickering and misinformation seem to dominate today’s public debate, said Amy Ignatius, introducing a discussion between David Axelrod, senior advisor to President Barack Obama and Joshua Bolten, chief of staff to former President George W. Bush at Washington…
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[Washington Window] What does it mean to be a mentor? It means more than attaining personal success and recognition, which Civil Rights leader Dorothy I. Height undoubtedly achieved many times over during her 98 years of life. It means more…
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[Washington Window] St. Philip’s, Anacostia and the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys welcomed a special guest on Dec. 11 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a friend of the late Bishop Walker. Tutu was in town to receive the W….
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[Washington Window] The Right Rev. V. Devasahayam, Bishop-in-Madras of the Church of South India, knows how it hurts to be excluded. Born into the Dalit, or “untouchable,” community – those who fall outside the Hindu caste system – he has…
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[Washington Window] Forty years after his tragic death, the unmistakable cadence of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice sounded again in Washington National Cathedral. More than 1,600 people gathered on March 30 for the opening event of Racial…
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[Washington Window] Seated in the Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations on Capitol Hill, the Right Rev. Suheil Dawani, who will be installed as the new Bishop of Jerusalem in March, is describing his vision for the Diocese of Jerusalem…
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[Washington Window] Verna Dozier was a well-loved lay theologian, author, mentor and Christian educator in the Episcopal Church. Dozier attended St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill for more than 45 years, and was that church’s first black parishioner. Read…
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