Sister Greta Ronningen, an alumna of Bloy House, appeared on the cover of Time’s Nov. 26/Dec. 3 edition. Bloy House is the Episcopal Theological School of Claremont.
Sister Ronningen holds a master’s degree in spiritual formation and is cofounder of the Community of Divine Love in San Gabriel. She is the senior Episcopal chaplain at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, co-director of Prism Restorative Justice, a ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and author of Free on the Inside: Finding God Behind Bars (CreateSpace, 2016).
She appears in the upper right corner of the cover, which illustrates a cover essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen, a university professor, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.
She was “participating in an interfaith event in Los Angeles,” said an item in Bloy House’s newsletter. “Following the event she was invited to join a number of religious leaders from across the city for a photo shoot for Time magazine that was a 21st-century reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell’s beloved ‘Freedom of [Worship]’ painting.”
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.
