Jackie Watt believed that her ordination as a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta made perfect sense. For some others, not so much. Roadblocks stood in her way in the mid 1990s. No Episcopal ...
Lydia Elliott Hopkins, an Episcopal deacon and longtime activist who plunged into volunteer work after Hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans, died Aug. 8 of a heart attack while on vacation with her ...
A Tuolumne County woman was ordained as an Episcopalian deacon at a Saturday ceremony in Stockton, joining a small but growing group of transgender clergy members.Carolyn Woodall, an attorney with the ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ALLENTOWN – Three Schuylkill County men were among 15 deacons ordained on Sept. 14 at the ...
Eddie Driggers, former North Charleston police chief and Episcopal deacon, died June 24 at his home near Park Circle. He was 69. Driggers died after a multi-year battle with cancer, Mayor Keith Summey ...
The Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota will ordain 18 deacons this summer, the first class of its "North Dakota School of Ministry." The program was developed by Bishop Michael Smith to "promote the ...
CANTON − The Rev. Robin Woodberry, deacon-in-charge at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 425 Cleveland Ave. SW, will be formally ordained as a priest at 10 a.m. June 3. Bishop Mark Hollingsworth Jr., ...
A professor once told Irma Wyman that women had no place in engineering and that no matter what she did, she would fail his class. She dropped the course, but not the profession, a friend recalled.