A Ministry of Stirring the Pot (St. Pauli Murray)

A Ministry of Stirring the Pot (St. Pauli Murray)

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.

 

Slides from November 15, 2020

 

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

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