Episcopal Confederates

 Stained glass fabricator Dieter Goldkuhle, who worked with his late father to install many of the stained glass windows at Washington National Cathedral, replaces an image of the Confederate battle flag after cathedral leaders decided in 2016 that the symbol of racial supremacy had no place inside the cathedral. A year later, the cathedral also removed depictions of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Photo: Danielle E. Thomas/Washington National Cathedral

An Episcopal Church gathering will be held this week to discuss confederate symbols and memorials in Episcopal churches.  

"Confederate Symbols & Episcopal Churches: Tools for Leading Change" will take place on the campus of the University of the South from Nov. 5–7, 2019. Workshop sessions will be led by a teaching faculty composed of University professors and Episcopal clergy as well as Day and Pommersheim. Dr. Shelley MacLaren, curator of the University Art Gallery, and Dr. Woody Register, director of The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation, will teach the section on arts and symbols. The Rev. Jamie Osborne, T’17, associate rector of St. John’s Montgomery, Alabama, will teach the section on theological underpinnings. The Rev. Molly Bosscher, T’08, rector of St. Andrew’s Grand Rapids, Michigan, and former associate at St. Paul’s, Richmond, Virginia, will conduct the part on best practices.