Summary
Independent Tribune – Linda Beatrice Brown: Battling racism as an author, educator and activist – “It really started me on a trajectory of speaking out and writing about the evils of racism,”
Episcopal News Service – EMM affiliates prepare to welcome families fleeing Taliban as US withdraws from Afghanistan – Episcopal Migration Ministries and its affiliates are mobilizing to respond to an expected increase of people fleeing from Afghanistan…
The Living Church – Bishop Roundup: West Missouri, Chicago – Two Midwestern dioceses have named bishops to assume temporary roles. In West Missouri, the Rt. Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce has accepted a nomination as bishop — In Chicago, the Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen has been named assisting bishop
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Linda Beatrice Brown: Battling racism as an author, educator and activist
Independent Tribune – Greensboro, NC
Literature has always been a big part part of Linda Beatrice Brown’s life.
“I’m from a family that is kind of bookish. Both of my older sisters were habitual readers. They introduced me to classical literature like ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Little Women.’ We would share ideas about these books,” Brown said.
By age 14, Brown was doing her own writing. She went on to get college degrees in English and French literature. That was the start of a life as a writer who authored books on the African American experience and civil rights.
It was during her time as a student at Bennett College in the 1960s that she became passionate about anti-racism. Her father was a civil rights activist, and she participated in Greensboro’s 1960 sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters. […]
EMM affiliates prepare to welcome families fleeing Taliban as US withdraws from Afghanistan
Episcopal News Service
Episcopal Migration Ministries and its affiliates are mobilizing to respond to an expected increase of people fleeing from Afghanistan to the United States after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, expediting the end of the 20-year American war in the country.
Episcopal Migration Ministries, or EMM, is one of nine agencies with federal contracts to provide refugee resettlement services on behalf of the State Department. The agencies also have helped resettle people through the special immigrant visa program, which is intended to offer sanctuary for Afghans and their families who fear persecution because of their work in support of the U.S. government. […]
Bishop Roundup: West Missouri, Chicago
The Living Church – Chicago & Missouri
Two Midwestern dioceses have named bishops to assume temporary roles.
In West Missouri, the Rt. Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce has accepted a nomination as bishop provisional for the 47 congregations in the diocese. Bruce has been bishop suffragan in the Diocese of Los Angeles since 2010, and also serves as secretary of the House of Bishops and as a trustee of the Church Pension Group.
In Chicago, the Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen has been named assisting bishop, and will support the Standing Committee and Bishop-Elect Paula Clark as Clark continues to recover from a cerebral bleed. […]