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Dorothy Sanders Wells
Dorothy Sanders Wells is rector of Saint George’s Episcopal Church in Germantown, Tennessee.
I was sick and you visited me (Matthew 25:31-46)
Each year, about 1.9 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the US.
November 24, 2023
November 26, Reign of Christ A (Matthew 25:31–46)
Do we understand how our actions may shape the fate of a neighbor?
November 20, 2023
Frederick Douglass’s talents (Matthew 25:14-30)
When the true master returned, he found Douglass using his gifts for justice.
November 17, 2023
November 19, Ordinary 33A (Judges 4:1–7)
Irena Sendler, who smuggled hundreds of children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, was a modern-day Deborah.
November 13, 2023
All our choices (Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25)
We are faced with many decisions each day.
November 10, 2023
November 12, Ordinary 32A (Matthew 25:1–13)
The Bible, so often used as enslaved people’s yoke, became their cry for freedom.
November 6, 2023
The duly elected Black men expelled from a state legislature—155 years ago
The expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson recalls the Original 33, expelled by Georgia’s anti-Reconstruction White majority in 1868.
April 13, 2023
On the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, I remember my Black father’s military service
He prayed things would get better. It’s not too late.
May 25, 2021
Can offensive monuments from the past help hold us accountable today?
Perhaps the names once chosen for honor can now spark meaningful conversation.
August 12, 2020
Ahmaud Arbery’s lynching begs America to respond
What would it take to stop seeing neighbors as intruders and threats?
May 13, 2020
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