
Presiding Bishop joins the orange stole movement
On June 5th, many Episcopal clergy and congregations followed the call to #WearOrange.
On June 5th, many Episcopal clergy and congregations followed the call to #WearOrange.
Bishop Laura J. Ahrens writes; “as the day wore on, the shirt took on a different meaning to me. As I encountered colleagues and community members and followed social media, seeing friends, acquaintances, strangers, politicians, and one older woman walking slowly, but importantly, wearing orange and attaching a sign to her walker #wearorange, the feeling of the day took a different shape.”
The debate over guns in our society needs to be just that—a debate, with the willingness to listen. Too often, tragedies happen at the end of a gun barrel, and how many of those times would the people involved give anything to take back what had happened?