Faith Forum Series - A Great Cloud of Witnesses
This series will include presentations by various parishioners and friends of the Cathedral about holy women and men who were instrumental in the church in transformational times in our history… “Christians who have inspired other Christians in different times and places.”
Join Zoom Meeting at 9 a.m. Sunday
October 4 – Harriet Bedell – Saundra Kidd
October 11 – Oscar Romero – Jon Baugh
October 18 – Frederick Douglass – Joe O’Shields
October 25 – Albert Schweitzer – John Ragsdale
November 1 – Martin Luther King Jr. – Bob Dannals
November 8 – Mary Bethune Cookman – Michael Corrigan
November 15 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1902; Amelia Bloomer, 1894; Sojourner Truth, 1883; and Harriet Ross Tubman, 1913, Liberators and Prophets – Kirby Oberdorfer
November 22 – Frances Perkins – Nicolette Papanek
Past Classes
September 27 – Jonathan Myrick Daniels – Linda Privitera
A Great Cloud of Witnesses: Jonathan Myrick Daniels
September 20 – James Weldon Johnson and Pauli Murray – Owene Courtney
James Weldon Johnson wrote the popular “African American National Anthem” “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.” Pauli Murray was the first African American woman priest ordained in the Episcopal Church. However, there is lots more to tell about these two.
James Johnson and Pauli Murray