Sunday, Oct. 12 | 1:00 - 3:00 pm | Parish Hall / Zoom -
Please join us on Sunday, October 12 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Parish Hall, when, under the auspices of St. John’s new Faith and Democracy Ministry, Bishop Eugene Sutton will lead a conversation about what people of faith should be saying in these troubled times, and what they should do.
Bishop Sutton is the senior pastor of the Chautauqua Institution, assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and formerly the bishop of the Diocese of Maryland and canon pastor of Washington National Cathedral.
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More About our guest speaker, Bishop Eugene Sutton
Bishop Sutton is the senior pastor of the Chautauqua Institution, assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and formerly the bishop of the Diocese of Maryland and canon pastor of Washington National Cathedral. He has also served as a college chaplain, parish priest, and professor of homiletics and liturgy at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Sutton is a frequent speaker at conferences focused on spirituality, nonviolence, and social justice, and he has led numerous missions focused on peace and reconciliation to South Africa, Israel, and the Holy Land. He co-founded Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington (COMW), an ecumenical network of those committed to the daily practice of centering prayer, and is a contributor to the books The Diversity of Centering Prayer and Reclaiming the Gospel of Peace: Challenging the Epidemic of Gun Violence. His board memberships have included the Institute for Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Ecumenical Leaders Group of Central Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Bishops United Against Gun Violence. Bishop Sutton has been named by the Center for American Progress as one of “Fourteen Faith Leaders to Watch” for his faith-led efforts to promote nonviolent solutions to conflicts.
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