Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
Many with ties to the Civil Rights movement will recall the racist rhetoric used by white Southerners to denounce efforts to promote integration. This rhetoric includes arguments about states’ rights, “massive resistance,” and the dog whistles accompanying these efforts. And leading the pack when it comes to dog whistles is
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Earlier, we covered allegations of racism by multiple persons at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), including a student and a former instructor. The instructor, a minority, had requested nominal downtime following the challenges of the pandemic and to deal with the trauma of the continuing microaggressions minorities typically experience in the
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It will soon be 60 years since the Rev. Martin Luther KIng, Jr., penned his famous letter from the Birmingham jail. In it, he decried the role of white “moderates” in perpetuating racism, and sent it to two Episcopal bishops. That begs the question: Is your “moderate” Episcopal parish part of the problem? Are you part of the problem?
These are meaningful questions to ask this Lent.
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Following a series of racist incidents at Sewanee, a school owned by the Episcopal church, there was a lot of talk about ending racism. But at the end of the day, that is all we have seen on the matter — talk. And the Episcopal church remains clueless on race.
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