Friends,
I'm delighted to let you know that Ruby Sales, co-founder of The SpiritHouse Project and winner of FOR's 2015 Martin Luther King Award, will be preaching in Decatur this Sunday. I hope you can join me!
Sunday, April 10, 10:00 AM
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
2833 Flat Shoals Rd., Decatur, GA
 In 1965, Ruby was just 17 years old when Jonathan Daniels, a 26-year-old Episcopal seminary student, stepped in front of the bullet that would likely have killed her. Both of them -- Ruby, a young black activist from Alabama, and Jonathan, a white man from New Hampshire -- were dedicated civil rights activists fighting against segregation and oppression in Alabama, but only one of them would live to see the end of that year.
Twenty years ago, she decided to enroll at the theological school which Jonathan had been attending at the time of his participation in the movement. From 1994 to 1998, Ruby was a student at the Episcopal Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There she struggled with the meaning of her calling as a woman, as a Christian, as a prophet of hope and as a child of the freedom movement, still choosing not to be formally ordained.
Early in the year 2000, Ruby Sales became the director of the St. Stephens Community Center in Washington, D.C., a church-based social justice center, where she says she believes she has worked out "the ordination thing" in an informal but very real way.
 With co-founder Cheryl Blankenship, Ruby was honored at the FOR Centennial celebration last fall as the 2015 Martin Luther King Award winner. SpiritHouse is an organization that uses the arts, research, education, action, and spirituality to bring diverse peoples together to work for racial, economic, and social justice, as well as for spiritual maturity.
Ruby Sales is a nationally-recognized human rights activist, public theologian, and social critic, whose articles and work appear in many journals, online sites, and books.
Join her this Sunday in Decatur!
Sunday, April 10, 10:00 AM
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
2833 Flat Shoals Rd., Decatur, GA
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 Max Hess
National Council
Fellowship of Reconciliation
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