From the Archdeacon

The Episcopal-AME Book Study continues to meet at Grace Church Cathedral on Tuesdays from 5:00-6:00 p.m. We are now beginning to read The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Toni Tipton-Martin notes, “Edge sets a table where everyone is welcome and every story matters. The Potlikker Papers inspired me with renewed hope for unity not just in Edge’s beloved South but anywhere there is food to eat and people to eat it.”  

This Friday, August 18, at 12:00 p.m. in the Bishop Guerry Chapel at Grace Church Cathedral, Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in observation of the feast day of William Porcher DuBose. DuBose was a South Carolinian, graduate of The Citadel, and founder of the School of Theology at the University of the South. He is considered by many to be the greatest theologian ever produced by the Episcopal Church. He was also Bishop Guerry’s teacher, and later his colleague, at Sewanee.

The following are a few quotations from DuBose:

• “The Church is first ‘One' – and then, and therefore, ‘Holy’; for what is holiness but the spirit of unity and love? Then, next, it is ‘Catholic,’ for catholicity or universality is the necessary corollary of unity.”
• “There is no real unity in which there is not diversity, and in the highest unity there is theutmost diversity.” 
• “The one great lesson that must…make ready the Christian unity of the future is this: that contraries do not necessarily contradict, nor need opposites always oppose.  What we want is not to surrender or abolish our differences, but to unite them.”
• “We are saved as we are, because God is what he is.”