11/15/2020
Matthew 12:1-14
Meg Hoffman
Pauli Murray was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, a women’s rights activist, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 Murray was the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest, in the first year that any women were ordained by that church.
Pauli Murray resources:
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
Dark Testament by Pauli Murray
Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray
Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray
Selected Sermons & Writings by Pauli Murray
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
All Saints Resources:
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals eds. Shane Claiborne, Enuma Okuro, & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time by Robert Ellsberg
A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives by Robert Ellsberg
All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time by Robert Ellsberg
Can I Get a Witness?: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice eds. Charles Marsh, Shea Tuttle, & Dan Rhodes
Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines ed. Richard Foster & Emilie Griffin
My Life with the Saints by Fr. James Martin, SJ
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Canticle of the Turning by Cooney
Thy Mercy, My God by Stocker/McCracken
Daughters of Zion by Wardell/Rose/Zach