Get to know the first five Black women to be elected diocesan bishops within the Episcopal Church.
During this moment, with the #metoo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the increased feelings of division in our country, Black women clergy in the Episcopal Church have voiced a need to come together, believing that their experiences and concerns may be very different than those of other clergy. That need is answered here in This Band of Sisterhood.
The five Black women bishops featured in this book can provide a compass for how to journey along these new paths. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Carlye J. Hughes, Kimberly Lucas, Shannon Mac Vean-Brown, and Phoebe A. Roaf offer honest, vulnerable wisdom from their own lives that speaks to this time in American life.
Both women and men will find this book invaluable in discerning how God might be calling them to use their own leadership skills.
Table of Content
Foreword: . . . And a Band of Angels by Catherine Meeks
Introduction
Chapter 1. Gird Up My Loins
Chapter 2. Growing Up Black in the Church
Chapter 3. The Dual Pandemic
Chapter 4. Discerning the Call
Chapter 5. Living into the Call
Chapter 6. We Are the Church
Afterword by Paula E. Clark
Notes
About the author
Shannon Mac Vean-Brown is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.