“This might be a very difficult conversation to have in the house and certainly in the church as a whole,” said Thomas Breidenthal, who is Bishop of Southern Ohio and chairs the House of Bishops Theology Committee. He added that the committee wants to provide ways to “model honest and truthful conversations.”
The committee is drawing in part on the resources of the Episcopal Church Archives, which since 2008 has maintained and updated a robust online exhibit tracing more than two centuries of Anglo-African legacy in the United States.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
