Theologian may be cut from Church calendar over racist views
William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918), an influential Episcopal Church theologian, seminary dean and professor. | Courtesy the William R. Laurie University Archives and Special Collections at the University of the South A commission of The Episcopal Church has recommended the removal of a prominent theologian from their calendar of saints due to his history of supporting white supremacy. William Porcher DuBose, a prominent theologian who died in 1918, is listed as an Episcopal saint on the “Lesser Feasts and Fasts” of the Episcopal Church calendar. The Church’s Standing Commission on Litu...