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On a brisk, sunny day last November, several of Boston's clergy gathered on the Common anticipating the start of something big. The kickoff of the ecumenical Covenant of Racial Justice, Equity, and Harmony campaign was an event designed to show Boston's true colors, so to speak. The interdenominational...
The idea of a Covenant, now entering its second year, is no longer a novelty but a concept in the midst of change. Rev. Donald Luster of the Charles St. AME Church in Roxbury, a member of the Covenant steering committee, said, "We're in a process of trying to...
Getting the idea off the ground never promised to be simple. Canon Ed Rodman, minister to minorities for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, recently recalled the Covenant's genesis. "It really has two origins," Rodman said. One group, consisting mainly of "grass roots people" and ministers, hoped to turn the...
"It was a real confusing meeting, because people came with two agendas," Rodman said. "The Protestant churches which weren't predominantly Black"--including many influential Evangelical churches--"were not there...this was the third piece of the agenda. To placate those elements a second meeting was held, which was actually...
But the name which unified the concept and pushed it forward appeared with even less organization. "The reality was," Rodman said, "that in order to get this off the ground you had to have the backing of the hierarchy, as well as the politicians." That support materialized when Humberto Cardinal...