#episcopal

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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#admired #age #because #black #boy

My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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#challenge #church #episcopal #i #member

I still don't know what Episcopalian means. ↗

— Fiona Apple

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#i #know #means #still