A well-known Episcopal blogger and lay leader in the Diocese of Pittsburgh has been accused of stealing funds from an elderly woman who gave him responsibility over her finances and who lives in a nursing home.
Juneteenth affirms that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as the rights of all, not a select few.
Today we mourn the loss of our brothers and sisters at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Occasionally we print letters to the editor; in this letter the Rev Scott Petersen, himself an alcoholic in recovery, urges the church to own that we are a church that welcomes alcohol, but also to learn to welcome all of it: the good, the bad, and the transformational.