Rev. Heyward will reflect on where we are as a nation, local communities, and individuals in the wake of the election.Rev. Carter Heyward

Rev. Heyward is a NC native who spent her childhood in Hendersonville. One of the first women priests in the Episcopal Church, she was ordained in a controversial service prior to the church’s approval of women’s ordination. She retired in 2005 from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, where she had taught theology for 30 years. Today she lives in Brevard, where she has been working for several years with the NAACP and with the Free Rein Center for Therapeutic Horseback Riding. Rev. Heyward has written a number of books over the years, most recently: She Flies On! A White Southern Christian Debutante Wakes Up, which will be published in 2017 by Seabury Press.