Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons • Medium • bit.ly/2pzwSSZTeen Vogue: Church Arbiter? March 22, 2018 News NBC 5 in Chicago has reported incorrectly that Teen Vogue published a list of the “100 most awesome” churches in the nation. The Daily Herald in Chicago’s western suburbs published a submitted item on March 13 that said St. Mark’s Church in Glen Ellyn had made the list. The designation came instead from Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, a blogger on Medium and creator of The Resistance Prays, a TinyLetter publication. Teen Vogue’s Stephanie Russell Craft wrote a brief profile of Graves-Fitzsimmons in December. Graves-Fitzsimmons asked readers to consider five criteria as they determined church awesomeness: spiritually enriching community vibrant worship social justice warriors fully LGBTQ-inclusive [invites] people into Christian identity/belonging On Feb. 19, Graves-Fitzsimmons published a list of the first 100 churches nominated for the designation. These Episcopal churches made the crowd-sourced list: All Saints, Pasadena, California All Souls, Berkeley, California Epiphany, Leeds, Alabama St. John’s, Washington, D.C. St. Mark’s, Glen Ellyn, Illinois St. Matthew’s, Westerville, Ohio St. Paul’s, Jeffersonville, Indiana St. Paul’s Cathedral, Boston St. Stephen’s, Richmond, Virginia Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)