Meet the Church of Sweden’s archbishop-elect
Martin Modéus will lead the national church during a time of profound change.
Two words that shaped the civil rights movement
I’m in Greenwood, Mississippi today for a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of an event that marked a major turning point in the civil rights movement: a speech by Stokely Carmic...
Cleveland Sellers, 48 years after the Orangeburg Massacre
A bipartisan group of some two dozen members of Congress will travel to Orangeburg, South Carolina, this weekend to pay tribute to those who were killed...
Duncan Gray Jr., 53 years after the Ole Miss riot
I recently had the honor of sitting down with a fourth-generation Mississippian who knows a thing or two about racial injustice because he’s spent his life fighting it: Duncan M. Gray Jr., bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi from 1974 to 1993.
On the road with Jonathan Daniels
Fifty years ago today, Jonathan Daniels was shot and killed in Hayneville, Alabama....
Back in Selma
The calendar tells me I’m getting old. Fifty years ago, in Selma, Alabama, I was getting educated.
A college student in Wisconsin at the time, I ventured south to participate in the civil rights movement, including the voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery that began on March 21, 1965.
Remembering the march to Montgomery
In 1965, MLK asked religious leaders to come to Selma and march. Decades later, plans are taking shape in Montgomery to honor those who came.
Hopes rise in Haiti for new Episcopal cathedral
Among the casualties of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago this month was Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Port-au-Prince....
Cultural recovery in Haiti: Text and photographs by Gary G. Yerkey
Pulling works of art from the rubble of buildings destroyed in a
disaster may seem trivial compared with providing food and medical care. But it helps ensure the
culture's long-term recovery.