OCTOBER 2020
The Firebrand and the Notorious RBG

Once in a century, two women who have shaken the foundations of our view of society, cross paths in a manner that significantly advances the movement for equity and justice.

The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, Esq. and the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg are those two. Born 23 years apart, and facing many challenges and rejections by a society not ready for their
gifts and abilities, one woman (Murray) ended up setting a course that would clear a path and open space for the other (Ginsburg) to break new ground and create opportunity for all of us.
Confederate, Slaveholding Roots Found
in Bio of Donor Behind Corbin Scholarships,
Once Limited to White Recipients 

In November 1992, North Carolina Bishop Robert Estill received a letter marked “privileged and confidential” from The Episcopal Church’s Office of the Treasurer in New York. The intention of the letter, drafted the week before Thanksgiving, was to inform Estill of the criteria that diocesan bishops in seven Southern states had been using for decades to nominate scholarship recipients from a charitable entity known as the Corbin Trust.

The trust had been established according to the terms of a will left by Claude Florence Corbin, a 42-year-old woman who died in 1919 of multiple sclerosis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today, a century after her death, The Episcopal Church still distributes thousands of dollars each year on behalf of the Corbin Trust to college students and seminarians from 15 dioceses, yet details of this benefactor’s life are unknown to most Episcopalians.
Dr. Irving McPhail, President of Saint Augustine’s University Passes 

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of the 12th President of Saint Augustine’s University, Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail. President McPhail began his tenure on July 15, 2020. In the short time he was the University’s Chief Executive Officer, he made a memorable and positive impact in moving the University in the direction of being a “Learning Centered” campus.
ECF Welcomes Three New Directors

The Board of Directors of the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF) recently elected three new board members: Karla Fernandez Parker from Austin, Texas, Annette Buchanan from Neptune, New Jersey and Andrea McKellar from John’s Island, South Carolina.
Wayne Weathers: Don't Be Embarrassed To Admit You Need Help

The Rev. Wayne Weathers began struggling with depression in 2002, after a congregant in the church where he was the pastor shot and killed a family member who also was a member of the congregation.

But the stigma against seeing a therapist prevented Weathers from getting the help he needed for five years -- and even then, he kept it a secret.
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The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
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