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The Rt. Rev. Nathan Baxter
The Episcopal Church
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania
The Rt. Rev. Nathan D. Baxter is the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and former dean of Washington (D.C.) National Cathedral.
The Rt. Rev. Nathan Dwight Baxter, AHC, is the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and the 1,010 in succession in the Episcopal Church. He was elected as bishop coadjutor on July 22, 2006, and consecrated on October 22, 2006. Bishop Baxter's good friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu gave the sermon.
Directly before being elected Baxter spent two and a half years serving as the rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A third generation clergyman, he was dean of Washington National Cathedral from 1991 to 2003 and served as Chief Administrative Officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church Foundation. Before becoming dean of the of Cathedral, Baxter served as the administrative dean and associate professor of Pastoral Theology and Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, seminary dean and associate professor of Church and Ministry at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and chaplain and professor of Religious Studies at St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Baxter has also served at other parishes in Pa and Va.
Baxter, a Harrisburg native, he is the oldest of three sons (Rev Charles Wayne Baxter and Larry Baxter) to the Late Elder Belgium N. Baxter and Augusta Baxter.
He is married to Mary Ellen Baxter (Walker) and from this union they have two children David and Timika Baxter, and two foster children, John Harmon Thadbrean Dowling. They also have 9 grandchildren: Joshua Harmon, Jerena Harmon, and Justin Harmon (John); Shaquan Dowling, Zaire Dowling, Malachi Dowling, and Zion Dowling (Thadbrean); and Tyler Tyson and Geoff Trotter (Timika).
He graduated from Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1976 with honors and prizes in homiletics and Christology and earned a Doctor of Ministry there in 1985. Baxter has also studied at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Warren Deem Management Institute at the Columbia University Executive Center. Baxter has received numerous other honors from colleges, universities and seminaries including being named an honorary alumnus at the Episcopal Divinity School 1991, and receiving seven honorary doctorates including one from Elizabethtown College when he was their commencement speaker in May of 2004.
Baxter is an associate of the Order of the Holy Cross, chaplain of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Other Memberships include Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the Cosmos Club of Washington, and a life member of the Union of Black Episcopalians and the NAACP. He is also a decorated U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, having received the Vietnam Cross of Gallenty with Palm and the Combat Medic's Badge.
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Easter: The Manifestation of Undefeated Love
John 20:1-10
April 07, 1996
The Rt. Rev. Nathan Baxter (TEC)I want to talk this morning about Easter as the ultimate manifestation of God's love. Let's talk about Diane, we'll use that name.
Diane was every parent's worst fear. By her own account Diane grew up in a good and loving home. There were family outings, birthday celebrations, softball, dance classes and even church. But for some reason Diane never felt quite OK, and somewhere in high school things went awry. There were drugs, stealing, alcohol, staying out late.
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What a Christian Community Can Offer a Polarized Society
John 13:35
March 03, 1996
The Rt. Rev. Nathan Baxter (TEC)One of the greatest problems facing America today is political anger. What can we, as Christians, in our various faith communities, contribute to a society which is bitterly divided on so many issues? Some scholars and community leaders worry that we are so deeply divided that violence may become a more common response to conflict than nonviolent protest, civil disobedience or traditional forms of negotiation.
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