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The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard is executive director of the Beatitudes Society based in Santa Barbara, CA. She also serves as preacher-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara.

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The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard is Executive Director of The Beatitudes Society, a new organization building a national network for progressive Christian seminarians.

Before coming to The Beatitudes Society in September, 2006, she served as Associate Rector at a church well-known for its prophetic social justice teaching, preaching and action, Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, California. A seasoned and accomplished preacher, she is now Preacher-in-Residence at Trinity, and is the author of "Claiming the Beatitudes: Nine Stories from a New Generation" (Alban, 2009).

Prior to ordination, she was a newspaper reporter and later Executive Director of the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race at All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA. Since ordination in 1988, she has served as Associate and Interim Rector at All Saints by-the-Sea, in Santa Barbara and as Canon to the Ordinary for Bishop Fred Borsch in the Diocese of Los Angeles, and also as Director of Mt. Calvary Invites, an adult education program of Holy Cross Monastery in Santa Barbara.

She is a graduate of Episcopal Divinity School and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Capps Center for Ethics, Religion and Public Life at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A native Minnesotan, she travels widely from her home in Santa Barbara, California where she lives with her husband Randy. Their son Benjamin is a medical student intent upon reforming American health care.

Latest Content by The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard: The Chutzpah of Mary Magdalene

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard (TEC)

Legend has it that Mary Magdalene staged a protest in the court of Caesar. As the story goes, Magdalene, the First Apostle of the resurrection, was a woman of means and influence (and chutzpah), and sometime soon after the crucifixion of Jesus, she procured an invitation to dine at the court of Tiberius Caesar. She had a mission. She went to Rome to protest Pilate's miscarriage of justice, and to announce the resurrection. The ancient tale says that as Magdalene stood up to speak, Caesar was about to peel a hard-boiled egg. When he heard her announcement of the resurrection, he held up the egg and said, "He can no more be raised from the dead than this egg can turn red." And there, in his hand, the egg turned red.

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The Rev. Anne Howard (Part 2) - Day1 Conversations with Peter Wallace

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard (TEC)
The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard sits down with Day1 host Peter Wallace to discuss the work of bringing social justice issues to the forefront of the modern church. Director of the Beatitudes Society, Rev. Howard explains why and how the issues of poverty, hunger and the environment are matters for the Christian faith.
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Other Recent Content by The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard

The Rev. Anne Howard (Part 1) - Day1 Conversations with Peter Wallace

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard (TEC)

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard talks with Day1 host Peter Wallace about the work of the Beatitudes Society and their programs to encourage and equip church leaders in the pursuit of justice, peace, and equality.

January 17, 2010

Finding Wild Space

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard (TEC)

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard draws from Jesus' first recorded miracle at the wedding at Cana to help us discover the wild space within us--and live into the radical calling of Christ.