With all the recent hoo-ha in the Episcopal Church about structural racism, there’s a case in Alabama that’s worth a second look. The matter is a Title IV case involving the Rev. Dr. Tommie Lee Watkins, the only openly gay African-American priest in the diocese. (The fact he’s the only one
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Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Charles Warwick
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania city police officer Charles Warwick was suspended from his duties on July 8, 1988 after criminal charges of rape, official oppression, and indecent assault. Warwick was convicted first degree felony rape in November 1990 after going to a city residence to arrest a man for public drunkenness,
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Bishop Steven Plummer
Bishop Steven T. Plummer was a graduate of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) in California. He was ordained to the priesthood in June of 1976 and served parishes in Utah and the Navajoland Area Mission jurisdiction. He was consecrated bishop for Navajoland in March 1990 as the
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Donald W. Belcher
the Rev. Donald W. Belcher was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Montana in 1997 and served at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Libby from 1996 to 2001. He was vicar of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross in Street, Maryland from 2001 to 2007, and
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