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The Urgency of Today’s Holy Innocents

December 28, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

We read in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew that when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee (erroneously referred to in the gospels as “King Herod”), fearing for his throne, ordered the deaths all the male children in the Bethlehem area under the age of two.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: gun violence, Holy Innocents, racial justice, racism

Following Jonathan Daniels’ Through Pilgrimage

August 14, 2022 By Ben Rockwell Leave a Comment

Growing up when and where I did, racism wasn’t something that was necessarily talked about.

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A short family guide to supporting racial justice now

June 18, 2020 By Wendy Claire Barrie Leave a Comment

As I write this, tens of thousands of people have gathered for a tenth straight day from New York City to San Francisco, in every state and at least 11 nations, to protest racism and police brutality.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: parenting, race, racial justice, racism, Wendy Claire Barrie

Striving for Justice and Peace by Putting One Foot in Front of the Other

June 13, 2020 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Fifty-four years ago, my father-in-law set out to walk 220 miles from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. Even though the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had passed less than a year earlier, a stronghold of fear still gripped African American voters, especially in the South.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: baptismal covenant, Black Lives Matter, peace, racial justice

Walking the Way of Love with Absalom Jones

February 13, 2019 By Chris Decatur 2 Comments

Today, we remember Absalom Jones, who was born into a world that didn’t see him deserving of love; a world that didn’t see him or his worth. Absalom Jones was born a slave in Delaware in 1746.

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Filed Under: Saints, Way of Love Tagged With: Absalom Jones, African-Americans, justice, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, love, racial justice, The Episcopal Church, Way of Love

The Color of Life

February 9, 2019 By Cara Meredith 5 Comments

I’m oftentimes asked why I wrote The Color of Life, and if I’m honest with you, the first thing I’ll say is that I never […]

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