Peace Out! Week Seventy-five #WearOrange for Gun Violence Prevention THIS SATURDAY! Read on for how you can participate and help the most vulnerable among us to be heard. And, if you still need inspiration, listen to Rev. Dr. William Barber's sermon at Washington National Cathedral here. JUNE 12 - Feast of Enmegawboh Offered by Rev. […]
Peace Out! Week Seventy-four #WearOrange for Gun Violence Prevention TODAY! Have you been urgently looking for a way to connect with other Episcopalians to lead us forward on racial justice in light of recent events? Join us later this afternoon at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please register using this link Look Me in the Eye […]
Peace Out! Week Seventy-three #WearOrange for Gun Violence Prevention Good People: There is no peace without justice Offered by Rev. Will Mebane Vice Chair, EPF National Falmouth, MA I am a black man. I spend literally every day of my life looking over my shoulder wondering from where the next glare, taunt, invective, and threat […]
Weekly Update from Melanie Peace Out! Week Seventy-two The Rio Grande, as seen from Boquillas, Mexico LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS Offered by Rev. Michael Wallens Co-Chair of Rio Grande Borderland Ministries Alpine, Texas For our migrant friends along the border, the pandemic is one more layer of complexity to their already tragic and unjust circumstances in […]
Weekly Update from Melanie Peace Out! Week Seventy-one Thurgood Marshall, commemorated on May 17 Hon. Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was a devoted Episcopalian and he is commemorated by our Church on May 17. An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October […]
Weekly Update from Melanie Peace Out! Week Seventy Bishop Paul Jones, Episcopal Peace Fellowship founder and conscientious objector CROSS BEFORE FLAG Every year on May 15th, we remember those who have established and are maintaining the right to refuse to kill, both in the past and today. Hundreds of people across the world are imprisoned […]
Peace Out! Week Sixty-nine Jessica Jew, MPH, is a member of EPF's National Executive Council. She attends St. John's Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA. Last September, while browsing the shelves of Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, OR, I picked up a book that I continue to quote and refer to months after I finished reading […]
Peace Out! Week Sixty-eight Mosaic detail, St. Bede's Episcopal Church, Santa Fe, NM Deep in our hearts, the fire of justice burns; a vision of a world renewed through radical concern. As Christians we are called to set the captives free, to overthrow the evil powers and to end hypocrisy. This is our task today […]
Weekly Update from Melanie Peace Out! Week Sixty-seven Mount Washington. Photo by Steven Atha EARTH DAY: Called to protect and restore It's Earth Day, and on this day The Episcopal Church commemorates naturalist and writer John Muir (1914) and Episcopal priest and environmentalist Hudson Stuck (1920): Blessed Creator of the earth and all that inhabits […]
