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VTDigger – Montpelier, VT – Q&A: Bishop Shannon MacVean-Brown on racism and grief – When Bishop Shannon MacVean-Brown spoke out against President Donald Trump’s photo opt…
Fauquier News – Warrenton, VA – Faces of Fauquier: Sunday school leader misses kids – “I want the kids to learn the stories and traditions of our faith and explore how those lessons can relate to their everyday lives…”
Greenfield Recorder – Greenfield, MA – Faith Matters: Let’s expand our vocabulary – It is time for us to join in the celebration of LGBTQIA+ pride. Now more than ever before, it is essential that we stand together and recognize the genuine worth of each and every human being.
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VTDigger
Montpelier, VT
Q&A: Bishop Shannon MacVean-Brown on racism and grief
When Bishop Shannon MacVean-Brown spoke out against President Donald Trump’s photo op at an Episcopal parish last week, she said, it wasn’t because she was holding her tongue about the events leading up to it.
The week of news about black Americans being harassed or killed — starting with a birder in New York being falsely accused of threats, and continuing with the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police — was “like a sucker punch,” MacVean-Brown said in an interview, “just thing after thing after thing.” […]
Fauquier News
Warrenton, VA
Faces of Fauquier: Sunday school leader misses kids
More than three months ago, the Hume-area church suspended Sunday school and worship services because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Leeds Episcopal Church Director of Children’s Ministries Rhonda Stribling eagerly awaits the day when things return to something like normal.
“I miss seeing the kids,” said Mrs. Stribling, 56. “I miss getting together and catching up on what happened the week before.” But the former elementary school teacher stays as busy as ever. […]
Greenfield Recorder
Greenfield, MA
Faith Matters: Let’s expand our vocabulary
It is time for us to join in the celebration of LGBTQIA+ pride. Now more than ever before, it is essential that we stand together and recognize the genuine worth of each and every human being.
In recent weeks, we have witnessed the detrimental effects of systemic racism and the growing gap between the haves and haves-nots in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the wider culture may choose to tolerate the principle of valuing some lives more than others, people of faith are called to stand up and challenge those dangerous cultural assumptions. […]