Craig D. Townsend
The Verrazano Bridge from the bike path.

Selected Works

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)
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
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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Photos

Once in a while I get excited to do some fun photos, so sometimes I'll post a link here to some of my photo projects. So far I've done a series of daily shots of the ornamental cherry tree in our backyard as it comes to bloom. It's pretty cool to watch the sequence.

Click here for the Tree Project