The Small Business Administration and the U.S. Treasury have released data on employers receiving funds under the Paycheck Protection Program. Recipients include Episcopal churches, schools, conference centers and dioceses.
The Bible is clear that working for the collective good is God’s will for human society
Jesus’ challenge to the pharisees critique of his ministry from this week’s gospel
“It just kind of fell together,” Stephens said. “They have a small congregation, so they don’t need a lot of space. And they want to meet around tables, so they are already practicing social distancing. It just sounded like a great idea.”
“Right now, in the United States we are wrestling with systemic inequality, focused on systemic racism of the Black people who were enslaved in the U.S., and whose descendants can’t hide or pass, as others have (Jews, Irish, Italian), because of their skin color. We are marching, writing, gathering in study groups, reading, and looking inward in new ways. We are hearing angry voices. Cries to deconstruct the historical artifacts which extolled those who perpetrated this enslavement. Those whose ancestors lost the Civil War are angry. And Black people, whose ancestors were survivors of that war, and who are still being subjugated by law and practice, are angry. And here we are.”