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This is just the prayer I needed tonight (words in alt text). Bishop Deon K. Johnson is awfully young to be so wise, poetic, and joyful.
He was elected on the first ballot by both clergy and lay representatives in Nov. 2019. He was supposed to be the first gay, Black, married Episcopal Bishop
07:54 PM - May 01, 2024
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in the U. S. and was to be consecrated in April 2020. But Covid delayed that and made it a much smaller private and subdued event. Still, I had the privilege of seeing the uproarious joy in our Cathedral after much fear that clergy and laypeople, many from reddest rural Missouri, would not agree.
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But the first vote was taken and he won decisively. Pandemonium ensued. We hugged, danced, cheered. Deon and his husband Jhovanny were clearly in shock. They didn’t believe it wd go that way either. Not in Missouri. Not after 12 straight white male bishops. Not after Trump won in MO. Love won.
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08:06 PM - May 01, 2024
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Yep. We never had class together, but several events and speakers. That pic a friend took of him his freshman year.
In response to Ves Lee.
04:22 PM - May 05, 2024
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Awesome 👌 super President and a better human being.
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