‘Wherever and whenever hatred or bigotry rises up and is directed at any child of God, we who follow Jesus of Nazareth and therefore stand for love, must act,’ he said. ‘We must stand up, speak up and show up. Today we do so with and for our Asian American and Pacific Islander brothers, sisters and siblings.’
(note: Updated mid-afternoon on 2/12 with a statement from the Chancellor, the Rt. Rev. Robert Skirving.) The Tennessean reports that vandals have recently targeted the
Our friends at Episcopal News Service report on a parish in Baltimore which is grappling with its history of racism. While congregations across The Episcopal
In an interview with Axios on HBO which aired earlier this week, the Presiding Bishop says that it is time to speak up about racism
Bishop Goff writes, “The political realities of this current moment in our Commonwealth are complex, but our faith response is not. Out of our own confession and repentance, we can call for the repentance of our leaders.”
A private Episcopal school in Texas is being sued by a former students and his parents claiming that the student was bullied because of his race. The school, after giving one-day suspensions to the admitted bullies, is claiming that that it cannot open their records on this matter because it is a religious school.
The initiative will launch with a “massive rally” on the National Mall to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 2018.
Lee’s congregation had difficulty dealing with Lee’s MTV remarks and their aftermath, and called for a confidence vote in their pastor.
In an op-ed for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Rev. Benjamin Campbell, of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, calls for us to tear down the “real” monuments of the Confederacy: the systemic oppression of African Americans.
Episcopal bishops and faith leaders across the country have spoken out and named the dangerous racist ideology behind Saturday’s violence.