Devotion with dessert on three Wednesday nights this summer, as we explore three of the lesser-known holy people included in the Episcopal Church’s Calendar. June 30: Isabel Florence Hapgood, July 28: Bartolomé de las Casas, and August 18: Moses the Black. Feel free to read the recommended reading beforehand (which will appear here, closer to the date), or simply join us for a summary and discussion. Or just come for the pie!

Prayer & Pie follows the regular Wednesday schedule of 6 PM Evening Prayer & 6:15 PM Holy Eucharist. 

Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) lived his convictions with such zeal that he often seemed intolerant of others, but is remembered as a tireless advocate for justice for those oppressed by colonialism. His passionate defense of the Indians before the Spanish Parliament persuaded the emperor, Charles V, to accept Las Casas’s project of founding “towns of free Indians”: communities of both Spaniards and Indians who would jointly create a new civilization in America.