Racial Reconciliation
Back-to-School and Ministry
By Canon Myra Garnes I love “Homecoming” services and celebrations in our churches as we launch the ministry year. It is a hopeful time for parents and young people. Perhaps […]
Highlighting Hispanic Voices
By Oscar Rozo When you think Episcopal, what images come to mind? Liturgy? Organ music? Presiding bishop? When I think about The Episcopal Church, I think about Purepechas and Multicultural […]
Successful Racial Justice, Healing and Reconciliation-related Legislation
Race-related resolutions poured into the General Convention from dioceses, committees, task forces, and other bodies. We’ve curated this list of resolutions passed and concurred by both houses of General Convention. […]
A Diocesan Journey toward Truth and Transformation
As convention host, the Diocese of Maryland got to invite the whole church to learn about a ministry that defines their life together. For Maryland, that ministry is racial reconciliation […]
Sacred Ground’s Next Chapter
By Valerie Mayo and Katrina Browne Speaking of the ongoing subjugation of Black bodies post-Emancipation, W.E.B. Du Bois remarked in his 1903 classic The Souls of Black Folk, “In vain […]
From the BBC Grant Community: Art as a Doorway to Transformative Relationship
By Linda Witte Henke The Dismantling Racism Team of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Carmel, Indiana, sees art as a powerful vehicle for building relationship and celebrating the voices […]
Juneteenth and the Call to Remember
By Willis Foster Sr. and Edna Johnston Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when U.S. General Gordon Granger read General Orders No. 3 to the people of Galveston, Texas. He announced: […]
Indigenous Voices Past and Present
By Virginia Taylor The Diocese of Western North Carolina is leaning into learning and relationship with Indigenous communities. This spring clergy and lay leaders from across the diocese took their […]
A Time for Freedom
By Nick Gordon June is an action- and emotion-filled month. Between Pride, Juneteenth, the Poor People’s Campaign March on Washington, and the church’s General Convention, we have many opportunities to […]
Sacred Ground: The Place of Grief in the Spiritual Life
By The Rev. Tricia de Beer Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan Catholic priest and theologian reflecting on the Rwandan genocide, said, “The resurrection of the church begins with lament.” There is […]
