Racial Reconciliation
Preaching Proper 17
In this episode of Prophetic Voices, we’ll be discussing the lectionary for Sunday, September 3: Proper 17. The texts covered in this episode are Exodus 3:1-15, Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:9-21. Our amazing guests this week are: Prophetic Voices is hosted by the Rev. Isaiah “Shaneequa” Brokenleg, The Episcopal Church’s staff officer for Racial Reconciliation. For […]
Sacred Ground and Pilgrimage
By Barbara Van Cleve By most people’s standards I had a very good education, but it took only one session of Sacred Ground for me to recognize that my excellent high school and college teachers had misrepresented American racial history. Over the following nine weeks, through our readings and videos, I registered growing annoyance—even anger—at […]
Becoming Beloved Community in the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon
By Amy Jayne This story of justice and restoration begins at Ascension School Camp and Conference Center, the spiritual center of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon. From time immemorial, the land was an abundant First Foods habitat and a critical part of the seasonal-rounds lifestyle of the Native people of the region—the Walla Walla, Cayuse, […]
July Gathering Free to Beloved Community Grant Recipients
Did you know that all recipients of Becoming Beloved Community grants can attend this summer’s “It’s All About Love” festival free? Whatever year your ministry received its grant, your grant organizer should have received an invite email with info for securing your free registration code. If you didn’t get it, please email us at reconciliation@episcopalchurch.org, […]
A Prayer Unanswered
By the Rev. Phil Hooper Like many closeted young people, when I was a teenager, I would pray to God to make me anything other than who I was. The world around me said that being gay was a fracture in my soul that had to be sealed up; a distortion that had to be […]
Sacred Ground Leadership Changes and a Summer In-Person Get-Together
By the Rev. Miguel Bustos There’s lots of news on the Sacred Ground front: news about changes in Sacred Ground’s leadership and news about ways to leap from Zoom to an in-person gathering of the Sacred Ground community this summer. First, after four years leading the extraordinary growth of the Sacred Ground program and community, […]
Anti-racist Pilgrims in Central California
By Bishop Lucinda Ashby “A Storied Pilgrimage with Race” is the unique anti-racism training for the clergy and people of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real. The title of this training was chosen with care, as this 12-part series is based on stories of people interviewed and an understanding that working out our own […]
What Being Asian American Means to Me
By the Rev. Peggy Lo During Asian American-Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, I invite you to seek out a diversity of stories and writings about AAPI history in general and of women and theologians in particular– not to arrive at answers or draw conclusions, but to listen and walk alongside. Here is what being an […]
This Summer It’s All About Racial Justice
By the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers Back in 2020, before COVID-19 lockdowns and the murder of George Floyd, Episcopal racial justice and reconciliation leaders were all set to gather in Minneapolis for the first Becoming Beloved Community Summit. We thought hundreds of Beloved Community grant recipients and leaders would come to share strategy, hopes, and […]
Preaching Rogation Days
In this second episode of season 7 of Prophetic Voices: Preaching and Teaching Beloved Community, we continue our focus on Creation Care, speaking with Episcopalians committed to the Beloved Community about the texts for Rogation Days (I). The texts covered in this episode are Jeremiah 14:1-9, Romans 8:18-25, Mark 4:26-32. Our guests this week are: Prophetic Voices is […]
