Central Library
Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:00 PM
HONOR MOORE
In conversation with Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, Exec. Director, the Regas Institute
The Bishop's Daughter
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An acclaimed poet offers an unsparing portrait of her father—a civil rights leader and Episcopalian bishop of New York City— that explores the consequences of sexual secrets on one American family.

Honor Moore is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir. She is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and co-editor of At the Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt. Her biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1996, and she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 for The Bishop’s Daughter. Her play Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she edited. Moore is also a theatre critic for The New York Times. She teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School and Colombia.

George Regas received his graduate education at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA; Cambridge University with John A.T. Robinson, and received his doctorate from the Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA.

Dr. Regas retired as Rector of All Saints Church, Pasadena, California, in May of 1995, after 28 years in this job.

All Saints Church is one of the largest Episcopal Churches in America with a dynamic and culturally diverse congregation.

The predominant focus of Dr. Regas' 28 years at All Saints in Pasadena was in the arena of peace and justice. He led the congregation to oppose the Vietnam War, the escalating nuclear arms race, and the Gulf War. He established many programs of responding to human needs: an AIDS Service Center, a medical program for uninsured children, a shelter for the homeless, and the Coalition For A Non-Violent City. George Regas is now The Rector Emeritus of All Saints Church.

In 1998, The Regas Institute was established for which George Regas is the Executive Director. The Institute is dedicated to the study and examination of Progressive Religion which will seek to be a counter-balance to the dominance of the Religious Right in the public arena.

Recently, he formed the Progressive Religious Partnership, in collaboration with People for the American Way, which seeks to put the Progressive Religious voice back into the dialogue on politics and morality.

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