Summary
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – Amy Meaux is the first female dean and rector of Little Rock’s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral – “She has tremendous good energy and I think she’s going to be wonderful for the Cathedral…”
Episcopal News Service – With the 2020 election approaching, how political can clergy get? – While some steer clear, others speak out – and even run for office themselves…
The Baltimore Sun – St. Louis Church in Clarksville launching concert series in person and online – As the new artistic director of the Concert Series at St. Louis Church in Clarksville, Colleen Daly Eberhardt had to plan a concert series during a pandemic.
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Amy Meaux is the first female dean and rector of Little Rock’s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – Little Rock, AR
As a child, Amy Meaux sat at the table with her grandfather on Sunday afternoons through the summer, counting up the offering collected at that morning’s church service.
On Monday mornings, she went with him to the bank to deposit the money. She tagged along with him for funerals, card game potlucks and meetings with the pastor as well.
Meaux, the only child of two working parents, spent half of each summer in Ohio with her mother’s parents, who taught her card games and encouraged her to be artistic. She spent the other half of summer in Florida with her paternal grandparents.
“Everything he did was really centered around his church community,” says Meaux of her paternal grandfather, Joe Dafler. “I think that’s really how I was able to come to the beginning sense that I could do this for a living. I thought that would be pretty cool.” […]
With the 2020 election approaching, how political can clergy get?
Episcopal News Service – New York, NY
As vicar of Church of the Common Ground, a street-based ministry, the Rev. Kim Jackson serves homeless and vulnerable people living on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia.
This coming January, she hopes to serve them in an additional setting: the Georgia Capitol, as a member of the state Senate.
“About half the folks that attend my service on Sundays sleep outside of the Capitol during the week – they sleep across the street from the Capitol,” she told Episcopal News Service. “I will serve outside of the Capitol with people who sleep out there, and I will go inside and fight like hell on behalf of them.”
Jackson is running as a Democrat in a reliably blue district in Atlanta’s eastern suburbs. The seat is currently held by Senate Democratic Leader Steve Henson, who is not seeking reelection. If she wins, she will be the first openly lesbian state senator in Georgia history. […]
St. Louis Church in Clarksville launching concert series in person and online
The Baltimore Sun – Clarksville, MD
As the new artistic director of the Concert Series at St. Louis Church in Clarksville, Colleen Daly Eberhardt had to plan a concert series during a pandemic.
Normally featuring six or more concerts, Eberhardt limited it to four. The question was: Would the concerts be live or virtual?
“We entertained every option,” Eberhardt said. “It is a delicate balancing act.”
As the number of COVID-19 cases came down and Howard County moved into Phase Three of reopening, Eberhardt made her decision.
“We are very, very thankful to offer the concert in-person and virtual,” Eberhardt said of “Bells are Ringing,” scheduled for Sunday, the first concert in a four-concert series, of which she will be the featured performer along with composer/pianist Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. […]