[5] In June 1963, Woodward began serving as chaplain for the American Episcopal Church at the University of Kansas (KU).
[3] On March 8, 1965, Woodward took part in a civil rights protest at the offices of KU chancellor William Clarke Wescoe.
[6] The protest had been organised by members of the University of Kansas Civil Rights Council in opposition to alleged racial discrimination by landlords, fraternities and sororities.
[14] In November 1974, Woodward began serving as the Episcopal chaplain for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[16] In May 1983, St. Francis House announced its opposition to United States policy on Guatemalan and Salvadoran refugees, declaring itself Madison's first sanctuary church for people seeking to flee those countries.
[17] On the topic, Woodward and church warden Margaret Scholtes wrote that "our faith calls us to provide sanctuary to those who we believe are fleeing from torture and persecution", arguing that refugees who were returned to their countries of origin were often executed.