When the Rev. Cecil Williams took over leadership of Glide Memorial Church in the 1960s and began transforming it into a national powerhouse for social justice and nonprofit services, he became an …
Photographs of Rev. Cecil Williams are displayed, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in the sanctuary of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, Calif., one day after his death at age 94. Williams cofounded the church in the city’s Tenderloin District in1963. When the Rev.
With the Texas-born minister’s death Monday at age 94, at the retirement community he resided in just blocks away from the church, colleagues and members of his church took time on Tuesday to contemplate a legacy that “is far greater than people realize,” said Randall Shaw, the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic.
“If you really understand, it seems to me, the liberated gospel, the liberated acts of Jesus, it would mean that we would take any hatred out of our hearts,” Williams said in a 2013 interviewFor some 60 years, Williams, his late wife Janice Mirikitani and other church leaders transformed a once conservative urban church into a world-renowned provider of social services and a congregation known for its raucous services featuring a boisterous choir, a blues/gospel house band and a progressive,...
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, left, new San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, right, and Rev. Cecil Williams, center, of the Glide Memorial Methodist Church, in San Francisco, help lead a march in San Francisco celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Monday, Jan. 19. 2004. The Rev. Cecil Williams leads a service at the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, Sunday, May 24, 1998. Williams told his congregation that he has two years before he retires at the mandatory retirement of 70. Williams has been pastor for 35 years and the church has been nationally known as a santuary for the poor.
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