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Episcopal News Service. February 14, 1991 [91042R]
The Rev. Dr. Robert Munday was recently elected president of the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life (NOEL). In sharing his vision of NOEL's ministry, Munday said pro-life Episcopalians should serve women in need, as well as oppose abortion: "We have to help women with crisis pregnancies in practical ways and show them that God loves them and wants them to be healed." Munday is the administrative dean and library director of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann will be the new editor of The Witness magazine, the Episcopal Church Publishing Company's Board of Directors recently announced. Wylie-Kellermann, a 1980 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is the prize-winning editor of the Diocese of Michigan newspaper, The Record. She also authored Poletown: Community Betrayed, the account of a low-income, integrated Detroit neighborhood that was destroyed to make room for a General Motors' Cadillac plant. WylieKellermann will succeed Mary Lou Suhor, Witness editor since 1981, who will retire on July 31.
The Rt. Rev. C. Brinkley Morton will retire early as bishop of San Diego because he is losing his sight. Morton suffers from diabetes and said his vision has deteriorated rapidly in the last nine months. He is now blind in his right eye and is quickly losing the sight in his left. Morton began his career as a lawyer and served in both the Mississippi House and Senate. He graduated from the seminary at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and served in Mississippi, Memphis, and Birmingham, Alabama, before becoming bishop of San Diego. Morton, 65, said he and his wife Grace will move to Memphis, near his boyhood home in northern Mississippi. He will be on leave from April 1 until the end of the year. The diocesan standing committee will be the ecclesiastical authority until a new bishop is elected in 1992.