This month, two Episcopal bishops’ daughters have articles in high-profile magazines.
In the March 3 New Yorker, Honor Moore dishes family secrets about her father, retired Bishop Paul Moore of New York, a war veteran and liberal activist. He was the first Episcopal bishop to ordain a lesbian priest.
Hear a podcast with Honor here.
And in The Atlantic, former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold’s daughter, Eliza, has a piece on religious conflict in Nigeria.
A snippet:
“At the time of the massacre, Archbishop Peter Akinola was the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, whose membership was implicated in the killings. He has since lost his bid for another term but, as primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, he is still the leader of 18 million Anglicans. He is a colleague of my father, who was the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in America from 1997 to 2006. But the American Episcopals’ election of an openly homosexual bishop in 2003, which Archbishop Akinola denounced as “satanic,” created distance between them. When I arrived in 2006 in the capital of Abuja to see the archbishop, his office door was locked. Its complicated buzzing-in system was malfunctioning, and he was trapped inside. Finally, after several minutes, the angry buzzes stopped and I could hear a man behind the door rise and come across the floor. The archbishop, in a pale-blue pantsuit and a darker-blue crushed-velvet hat, opened the door. “
To say that Griswold and Akinola are “colleagues,” is a bit roseate but whatever.
Read more here.
