Summary
Episcopal News Service – Episcopal priest goes viral for wearing the same dress for 100 days as a fashion sustainability challenge – “I’ve always been concerned about fast fashion anyway and the impact on the planet…
Tap Into Hawthorne – Episcopal Church Condemns Anti-Asian Racism; Rev. Soldwedel of St. Clement’s Calls for Justice – We need to embrace our covenant of baptism and the last commandment, which is to love one another as we were loved…
Our Town – St. Mark’s Cross Memorial in a Pandemic Year – Guided by the Christian moral compass of “love thy neighbor” and treating others equally as children of God, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery has been working towards racial justice and human rights for over 50 years.
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Episcopal priest goes viral for wearing the same dress for 100 days as a fashion sustainability challenge
Episcopal News Service – Holliston, MA
For many who have worked from home during the pandemic, wearing the same clothes for more than a day has become a normal occurrence. But one Episcopal priest is doing it to the extreme, on purpose.
In 2020, the Rev. Sarah Robbins-Cole, rector of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Holliston, Massachusetts, and chaplain at Wellesley College, wore the same dress for 100 days in a row as a challenge to counter “fast fashion” – the now-ubiquitous practice of buying cheap, mass-produced clothing and throwing it away or donating it to charity when it’s no longer fashionable. […]
Episcopal Church Condemns Anti-Asian Racism; Rev. Soldwedel of St. Clement’s Calls for Justice
Tap Into Hawthorne – Hawthorne, NJ
“As Episcopalians and as Christians, we need to embrace our covenant of baptism and the last commandment, which is to love one another as we were loved,” Reverend Erik Soldwedel told TAPinto Hawthorne. Soldwedel is the deacon-in-residence at both St. Clement’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette Avenue and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church found at the corner of East 18th Street and Broadway in Paterson. He said that Christians need to stand for justice and spoke of the church’s own history on race—and what he thinks should be done in light of recognizing its own failings. […]
St. Mark’s Cross Memorial in a Pandemic Year
Our Town – Manhattan, NY
Guided by the Christian moral compass of “love thy neighbor” and treating others equally as children of God, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery has been working towards racial justice and human rights for over 50 years.
The 250-year-old church is known for its annual Cross Memorial to honor the year’s victims of gun violence. The memorial has been a constant at St. Mark’s since 2013, a former rector’s response to the shootings in Aurora, Colorado and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Dolores Schaefer, a parishioner of the church for 28 years, has worked on the memorial for years and led this year’s installment. […]