Craig D. Townsend


Selected Works

Books
Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City
The first fifty years of the second black Episcopal congregation in the country, St. Philip's Church, and their struggle for acceptance by the white denomination.
African American Christianity in America
Forthcoming volume in the Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
Sermons
Sermons online
You can follow the link to sermons I've given that are archived on the St. James' Church website.
“The Swiss Army Knife Delusion”
Published in Biblical Preaching Journal, Fall 2005 (vol. 18, no. 4)
The "Yes" of God
Published in Biblical Preaching Journal, Fall 2004 (vol. 17, no. 4)
Shorter Works
Episcopalians and Race in New York City's Anti-Abolitionist Riots of 1834: The Case of Peter Williams and Benjamin Onderdonk
An award-winning study of an incident illuminating the interaction of race and religion in early-nineteenth-century New York City - from Faith in Their Own Color - published in Anglican and Episcopal History, vol. 72, December 2003.



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Hi all, and welcome to my website. For those who don't know me: I'm an Episcopal priest at St. James' Church in New York City - you can follow the link below to that website, it's very cool - and I have one book published as you can see from the surroundings, and I hope to have more on the way someday. Really.

If you click on Works above you can see some of what I've done and some of what I hope to do. The Photos link points right now just to a photo diary I'm doing of the ornamental cherry tree in our backyard - check each day as it edges closer to blooming - the blossoms are always spectacular. If you click on the heading that says Trips, you can see photos and read narratives about trips I've taken (with family to Santiago de Compostela, on my own to Cairo and Jerusalem). Everything else here should be self-explanatory.

Enjoy! - Craig