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By Leyla King My grandmother was four months pregnant with the child who would become my mother in April 1948 when, along with my grandfather, she fled for her life from her home in Haifa, Palestine, to Beirut, Lebanon, on a cargo ship. The two nights and one day on the ship, seasick and hormone-nauseated,…
By Seth Bonvouloir On Saturday, Oct. 26, the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire made a powerful statement in voting unanimously at the annual diocesan convention in favor of a reparations resolution. For the past year, the Reparations Task Force, composed of lay people and clergy, has met to carry out prayerful work and examine what…
By Stephanie Spellers I have not watched the film of five Black Memphis police officers beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to a pulp. I have not seen the EMTs who did so little while a beloved child made in God’s image lay dying at their feet. I have not looked, yet it is all I…
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 an amazing transformation of the heart that can happen when we allow ourselves to feel the pain of what is lost. What I have observed…
By Andrea Lauerman On Jan. 25, more than 60 people from the Sacred Ground community came together in San Carlos, California, for a day of learning, fellowship, and worship. We were welcomed to the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany by the Rev. Marisa Tabizon-Thompson and spent some time in small groups learning about each other’s…
By Lallie Lloyd In an August webinar for facilitators, the Rev. Nora Boerner, the Rev. Canon Meg Wagner, and the Rev. David Ware joined a conversation about Sacred Ground as a place where people are meeting across different kinds of difference and learning skills for brave conversations in their wider communities. Boerner and Wagner both…
By Amanda Szakats As a facilitator of the Episcopal Church’s Sacred Ground program, my fellow group members and I delved into America’s history of race and racism. Like many white people, I had not studied or thought too deeply about the lasting impact of white supremacy on today’s racial disparities, particularly in the arena of…
By Lallie Lloyd In this season of Epiphany, when the church celebrates Jesus’ birth and the revelation of God’s love to the wider world, it’s appropriate for us to reflect on how to continue to increase the impact of Sacred Ground, The Episcopal Church’s film-based dialogue series on the histories and legacies of racism in…
Description:Anxiety is part of the air we breathe—especially for those serving others in high-stress environments. In this opening conversation, Bishop Ann Ritonia and the Rev. Janine Driscoll, who holds a doctorate in counseling psychology, explore the spiritual and psychological dimensions of anxiety: how our images of God shape our fears, how anxiety manifests in the body, and how simple…
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