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Guideposts – Web Exclusive – What Our Faith Calls Us To: Reverend Melanie Mullen – …our faith comes from a place of people that were oppressed, in bondage, fleeing, marginalized.

Episcopal News Service – The Lambeth Conference reschedules to 2022 – ‘Let us walk together as we seek to be good news’ says the Archbishop of Canterbury

Episcopal Church – United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) – STARTING July 9th: “Beijing +25: Celebrating the Blessing, Realizing the Dream” online study group. Join the Presiding Bishop’s delegation to UNCSW 64 for an online study group from July – November! Through a series of online webinars.

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What Our Faith Calls Us To: Reverend Melanie Mullen

This interview is part of our What Our Faith Calls Us To series.

Rev. Melanie Mullen was working as a political fundraiser in Washington D.C., when she began attending a local church after her mother urged her to start attending a religious service. There, she found a mentor in the women priest at the church and eventually felt a calling to become a priest herself.

Her first call out of seminary was to lead a church in Richmond, Virginia with the nickname the “Cathedral of the Confederacy.” Although the members at the church were progressive and devoted to serving local institutions, everyone who attended also lived on the other side of town in wealthier neighborhoods. In her tenure there, she helped lead interfaith work and worked with parishioners to remove confederate statues within the church. She now serves as the Director of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care for the Episcopal Church.

We spoke with Rev. Mullen about how people of faith can react to racial injustice and what our faith calls us to in regards to serving our neighbors. […]

Episcopal News Service

The Lambeth Conference reschedules to 2022

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has sent a message encouragement to “walk together and be good news” to the bishops and spouses of the Anglican Communion today – in the month that would have seen the fifteenth Lambeth Conference hosted in Canterbury.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this decennial meeting of Anglican bishops and spouses had been rescheduled to the British summer of 2021. Since then – after ongoing monitoring of the pandemic and consultation with bishops and primates around the world – a new decision has been reached to further reschedule the conference to the British summer of 2022. […]

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United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW)

STARTING July 9th: “Beijing +25: Celebrating the Blessing, Realizing the Dream” online study group

Join the Presiding Bishop’s delegation to UNCSW 64 for an online study group from July – November! Through a series of online webinars, blogs and reflection conversations, we will study the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action together and understand the ways in which Episcopalians have engaged with Beijing since then, directly and indirectly. We will reflect on what has been achieved and what remains to be done to realize gender justice and equity for all women and girls. […]