A Historic Inauguration, A Historic Sermon Still To Come

I’ve watched the events of the last 24 hours with awe and excitement, unable to think of anything to blog that would be adequate to the occasion.

But I do want to mention that Rev. Sharon Watkins, who will be preaching at the National Prayer Service tomorrow, is not only a Butler University graduate, but as the daughter of a professor at Christian Theological Seminary, she essentially grew up on and around the Butler campus.

We have much to be proud of as a country, and plenty of people are talking about various aspects of the significance of this moment in history. As we move beyond inauguration day, a day in which groups consistently omitted from mention in the past were included in the moving address made by a man himself part of a group once excluded, I thought I’d mention the Butler connection to the first woman to lead the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and the first woman to lead the National Prayer Service.