Becoming Beloved Community Newsletter Articles:
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By The Rev. Meg Wagner
In 2019, Beloved Community Initiative—a mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa—received Becoming Beloved Community grant funding to begin an Ethnic …
by Peter Huang
The Gathering is a space for Asian Pacific American spirituality based in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. This Eastertide and Asian Pacific …
By Robyn Hyden
At Alabama Arise, as in The Episcopal Church, we value agape love. We strive to practice unconditional love, and through this, we envision …
by The Rev. Canon Dr. Winfred (Fred) Vergara
Gloria Fanchiang wrote the pop song “God who sees us,” in the aftermath of the massacre of six …
By The Rev. Kelly Kirby
The word “Becoming” is key in the phrase “Becoming the Beloved Community.” When we applied for a seed grant in 2019, …
By The Rev. Erin Kirby
“‘Anamnesis’ is the Greek word ‘to remember.’ It is the word Jesus used in the institution narrative in the Eucharist: ‘Do …
