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Get to know the first five Black women to be elected diocesan bishops within the Episcopal Church.
During this moment, with the #metoo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the increased feelings of division in our country, Black women clergy in the Episcopal Church have voiced a need to come together, believing that their experiences and concerns may be very different than those of other clergy. That need is answered here in This Band of Sisterhood.
The five Black women bishops featured in this book can provide a compass for how to journey along these new paths. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Carlye J. Hughes, Kimberly Lucas, Shannon MacVean-Brown, and Phoebe A. Roaf offer honest, vulnerable wisdom from their own lives that speaks to this time in American life.
Both women and men will find this book invaluable in discerning how God might be calling them to use their own leadership skills.

About the Author
Phoebe A. Roaf is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee.
Kimberly Lucas is eleventh and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese in Colorado. Lucas is the first woman as well as the first African American to serve as bishop in the diocese. She was consecrated in 2019. Prior to her election, she was rector of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C since 2012. Previously, she was the rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2005 to 2011.
Shannon MacVean-Brown is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.
Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows is the first black woman to be elected a diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Carlye J. Hughes is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.
WESTINA MATTHEWS is an adjunct professor for the Center for Christian Spirituality at General Theological Seminary. Matthews is an author, theologian, public speaker, and retreat leader whose practice reflects contemplative living through “holy listening.” Her latest book is This Band of Sisterhood. A graduate of Shalem Institute’s Spiritual Guidance Program, she currently serves on the Shalem board. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.