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From the National Washington Cathedral website:

Cathedral Announces Jon Meacham as Canon Historian

Washington National Cathedral announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer Jon Meacham has been named Canon Historian of the Cathedral. The first to hold this title, as Canon Historian, Meacham will preach and lead public conversations several times a year on issues of faith, spirituality and civic life.

He is the first leader appointed to help shape the Cathedral College of Faith & Culture—a hub for Cathedral programming around public engagement, culture and leadership—that will find a home in the Virginia Mae Center, which is currently under construction and expected to open in late 2022.

The National Cathedral confers the title “Honorary Canon” to distinguished leaders, lay or clerical, who have contributed to the mission of the Cathedral as a house of prayer for all people and a sacred space for the nation to gather. Cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith and Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde, along with the Cathedral Chapter—the Cathedral’s governing board—agreed unanimously on Meacham’s appointment as Canon Historian.

Celebrated presidential historian Jon Meacham will be appearing at the 2022 RMWF. His latest book is His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.

John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired to put his life on the line. Integral to Lewis’s commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God—and an unshakable belief in the power of hope. Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful. In many ways he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realizing its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change.