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Civil Rights Pilgrimage Reflection #2
by Rev. Hillary Kimsey Day 1: Atlanta: The King Center, Sweet Auburn, the Absalom Jones Center, Church of the Incarnation, Dr. Catherine Meeks In the past several weeks, I have heard the same question asked of two powerful and prophetic Black Episcopalians: Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Dr. Catherine Meeks. During the weekend of celebrations…
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Civil Rights Pilgrimage Reflection #1
By Rev. Canon Carla Robinson Atlanta, Auburn Avenue AKA Sweet Auburn Street. We walked this street, once the heart of Atlanta’s black community, it still carries that weight as I looked at the buildings and heard the stories of the neighborhood. It’s a complex history. Big Bethel AME Church, Atlanta Life, The Peacock Club, The…
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Bishop Phil’s Ordination & Consecration
It was a joy to gather with so many from the Circles and across the diocese for the ordination and consecration of The Rev. Dr. Phil N. LaBelle, 9th Bishop Diocesan of Olympia. Here are some photos from the weekend’s festivities, courtesy of Adrienne, Mary Bol, Simon Achol, and Greg Hester. Before the service Consecration…
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2024 AAPI Leadership Retreat
By Vinh Do | April 2024 At the AAPI Leadership Gathering in Portland, I learned a different way to think about identities and emotions that I would like to adopt in my church life and in life outside its walls. All of this, I learned from Rev. KJ Oh. Identities: In-between Nature has a place where two…
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St. Luke’s ~ San Lucas Creation Care Camp Reflection
Written by Susan Dale. You can read more about St. Luke’s San Lucas or SL2 here, as well as the Bishop Rivera Fund grant that they received in 2022. Creation Care Camp – Gratitude We at St. Luke’s – San Lucas have celebrated and are grateful: For air, water, and light. All of God’s creation…
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Indigenous Boarding Schools & The Episcopal Church
May-June 2023 | Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton from Facebook, with permission May 2, 2023 My friends, In June 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive effort to recognize the troubled legacy of federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and to…
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Welcome Sign Honoring Coast Salish People
The lovely Christ Episcopal Church in Anacortes was built in 1891 in the style of typical wood-structure churches in the Pacific Northwest. Numerous improvements have been made through the years: stained glass windows were added, a narthex was added and doors moved, but it has always remained a classical church with a traditional wooden sign…
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AAPI Retreat Reflection
The first revelation was the company of good, impassioned, and energetic people from our own Seattle contingent: Adrienne, Katya, Maria, and Tina.
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Western Regional Conference Summary
Tempe, AZ | April 2023 | by Sherina James “Envisioning a Spiritual Mosaic,” Western Regional conference was held at the Church of the Epiphany in Tempe, AZ from April 20-22, 2023. A gathering of approximately 45 individuals came together to explore the theme of the African Diaspora in our beloved community. The conference was co…
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Reflections on the AANHPI Retreat
April 2023 | Austin, Texas | By Maria Weber As I headed to SeaTac on the morning of April 26th, I braced myself for that familiar flutter of nervousness, the nervousness of someone who has always felt ill-at-ease in social situations, never knowing if I’ll fit in, find people to speak with, or be accepted…
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