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“Remaining Awake”
The Honorable John Lewis The Hon. John Lewis, U.S. Representative from Georgia’s 5th district and a key leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III’s guest on The Sunday Forum, and the guest preacher at the 11:15 am service.
MLK’s Nonviolence: Asleep After 40 Years? Taylor Branch, author of the trilogy America in the King Years, gave a public lecture on Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Film Screening: A showing of Sundance 2008 Film Festival finalist, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, a feature documentary in which producer/director Katrina Brown tells the story of her New England ancestors, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on Racial Reconciliation of the Diocese of Washington. (Photo by Amishadai Sackitey: “'Beatrice Manu at a river ceremony in Assin Manso, Ghana where captured Africans were brought for a last bath.” ) 
Preaching in the King Tradition Sermons in the tradition of Dr. King were offered by preachers from across the nation at the daily Holy Eucharist services at 7:30 am and noon. Click on heading above to see names of guest preachers and watch sermons on-demand. 
Sermon by Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III preached, asking us to recommit ourselves to Dr. King’s vision of racial equality and nonviolence.
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