Scandalous, Episode 4: Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

Coming Out Christian's mini-season "Scandalous" continues as Siobhan Boyd-Nelson and the Rev. Dr. Ben Huelskamp welcome back Rev. Melinda Garza Moran to discuss a barrier-breaking figure whose story deserves far wider recognition: the Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray.

A lawyer, activist, poet, and priest, Murray graduated first in her class from Howard Law School, co-founded the National Organization for Women, and helped shape the legal arguments behind landmark civil rights and gender equality cases, work that influenced both Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At age 63, after decades of pioneering work in law and academia, Murray entered seminary and went on to become the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.

Melinda shares what drew her to ...