Thomas Bullene Woodward
Thomas B. Woodward is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of the Rio Grande, Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with his wife Ann. Woodward was a steering committee member of "The Episcopal Majority", an organization within the Episcopal Church created to counter the attacks upon the church from various orthodox groups. In 2006, Woodward was appointed to the Executive Council’s Committee on the Status of Women and then elected as Secretary..
Woodward served The Episcopal Church over 2 decades as university chaplain at several campuses, including the University of Kansas, the University of Rochester, the University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He served as rector of Christ Church, Warrensburg and of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salinas, California, which was John Steinbeck's parish church. While serving in Salinas, he was awarded The Ben Heller Award for Courage and Leadership in Service to the Farmworker Community and The Bishop's Cross from the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real.
He has written two books for Seabury Press, "Turning Things Upside Down" and "To Celebrate", and more recently "The Undermining of the Episcopal Church," published by The Episcopal Majority. His articles have appeared in Modern Liturgy, The Witness Magazine, Red Rubber Noses and The Times on-line edition. His "The Parables of Jesus from the Inside," first published by The Sewanee Theological Review, is currently being expanded into a book. In the past two years, three of his fifteen minute plays have been produced by The Santa Fe Playhouse in their annual Benchwarmer series.
Recently, Woodward has collaborated with Daniel Steven Crafts, the originator of a new genre of opera called "Gonzo Opera," in the creation of two operas in that genre, "And the Winner Is. ." and "All the Right Moves." The characteristics of Gonzo Opera include music that is both melodious and memorable, a libretto that is comic and often satirical, production values that make it possible to produce the operas simply and inexpensively -- all in the service of appealing to young people from the ages of 25 to 45 years old who normally do not attend traditional operas.
Tom and his wife, Ann, have five children—Thomas B. Woodward, Jr., Jennifer R. Gibson, Joy P. Woodward, Thomas F. Cunningham and David C. Cunningham as well as five grandchildren.
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“He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
—Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)