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Episcopal Church to hold 'Day of Repentance' to apologize for participation in slavery
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 5:39pm

Atwo-day solemn observance has been planned for Oct. 3-4 at the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, Pa., where the Episcopal Church will publicly apologize for its involvement in the institution of transatlantic slavery. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will serve as celebrant and preacher at the October 4 service of repentance.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Concluding Presidential Address to the Lambeth Conference 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008 - 11:32am

I began the second of these plenary addresses with a reminder of the question, ‘What is Lambeth ’08 going to say?’ And I suggested that we also needed to ask ‘Where are we going to speak from?’ I hope that in recent days there has been some growing clarity about both of these questions and how we answer them: but today there is no avoiding the question of the central message, and I have the rather dangerous task of trying to discern some of what tha

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