Racial Reconciliation
July Gathering Free to Beloved Community Grant Recipients
Did you know that all recipients of Becoming Beloved Community grants can attend this summer’s “It’s All About Love” festival free? Whatever year your ministry received its grant, your grant […]
A Prayer Unanswered
By the Rev. Phil Hooper Like many closeted young people, when I was a teenager, I would pray to God to make me anything other than who I was. The […]
Sacred Ground Leadership Changes and a Summer In-Person Get-Together
By the Rev. Miguel Bustos There’s lots of news on the Sacred Ground front: news about changes in Sacred Ground’s leadership and news about ways to leap from Zoom to […]
Anti-racist Pilgrims in Central California
By Bishop Lucinda Ashby “A Storied Pilgrimage with Race” is the unique anti-racism training for the clergy and people of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real. The title of […]
What Being Asian American Means to Me
By the Rev. Peggy Lo During Asian American-Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, I invite you to seek out a diversity of stories and writings about AAPI history in general and […]
This Summer It’s All About Racial Justice
By the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers Back in 2020, before COVID-19 lockdowns and the murder of George Floyd, Episcopal racial justice and reconciliation leaders were all set to gather in […]
Sacred Ground Inspires Coalition for All
By the Rev. Margot Critchfield It was Michael Brown’s death in August 2014, and the subsequent Ferguson uprising, that changed my life. Like many other progressive and privileged White women, […]
Seed Grant Promotes Growth in Social Justice Efforts in Virginia
By David Atwood and Sudie McGahuey By God’s grace, the church’s 2021 grant has provided a focus and power for the Social Justice Ministry of Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, Alexandria, Virginia. We have been […]
Reflection from Connecticut
By Greg Farr At the 2020 annual convention of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut (ECCT), Resolution No. 7 was passed with the intent to recognize and confront systemic racism, white […]
Beloved Community with the Earth and One Another
By the Rev. Melanie Mullen Earth Day coincides with our remembrance of the martyrdom of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and that is appropriate, because both embody the heart […]