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ThriveGlobal.com – Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas of ‘Union Theological Seminary’: “If we want enough food to eat, then we should not withhold that from another” – I remember riding with my parents through the inner city of my hometown of Dayton…
Episcopal News Service – First ELCA transgender bishop, Megan Rohrer, hopes to ‘translate good news’ for the curious – This isn’t the first time the Rev. Megan Rohrer has been made bishop…
KTIV/4 TV – St. Thomas Episcopal Church holds a weekly food pantry – Food insecurity is still an issue for many in Siouxland. Monday officials with St. Thomas Episcopal Church held their weekly food pantry drive up. It’s something they’ve been doing rain or shine and no matter the temperatures.
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Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas of ‘Union Theological Seminary’: “If we want enough food to eat, then we should not withhold that from another”
ThriveGlobal.com
I do think that the fundamental and defining step begins with making a commitment to not withhold from another that which we would not want withheld from ourselves. So, for instance — if we want decent housing, then we should not withhold that from another. If we want enough food to eat, then we should not withhold that from another. If we want adequate healthcare, educational opportunities, employment opportunities, then we should not withhold that from another. And so, we should then commit ourselves to building a society that does not withhold from another that which we would not want withheld from ourselves. This is the first step toward healing our country — for again that which really divides our country is the reality of inequity of opportunity and life-enhancing options. […]
First ELCA transgender bishop, Megan Rohrer, hopes to ‘translate good news’ for the curious
Episcopal News Service – Sacramento, CA
This isn’t the first time the Rev. Megan Rohrer has been made bishop.
Rohrer, who uses the pronouns they/them, was erroneously labeled a bishop several years ago in a Norwegian news report while speaking at a celebration of St. Olaf in the country.
That mistake led the Lutheran pastor on a pilgrimage to Switzerland to visit the home of their ancestor, Nicholas von Flüe, the patron saint of Switzerland.
It also led Rohrer to believe it might be possible for a transgender person to become bishop.
“So much of my life is spent talking about people wondering if I’m a sinner, and so I wanted to take intentional pilgrimage time and dwell with this idea: If I’m related to a saint, let’s think of how would my life be different if I imagined myself in this saintly bloodline, like, as my call,” Rohrer told Religion News Service.
On May 8, the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America made it official, electing Rohrer as the fifth bishop of its nearly 200 congregations in California and Nevada. […]
St. Thomas Episcopal Church holds a weekly food pantry
KTIV/4 TV – Sioux City – IA
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) — Food insecurity is still an issue for many in Siouxland.
Monday officials with St. Thomas Episcopal Church held their weekly food pantry drive up. It’s something they’ve been doing rain or shine and no matter the temperatures.
Officials said they’ve seen the need dramatically rise during the pandemic.
“I have seen with my own eyes the dramatic rise in people,” said Rev. Patricia Johnson, St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church. “A lot of people saying they’ve never had to ask for food assistance before. Because of COVID we’ve had to do it as a drive up outside no matter if it’s 40 below, or pouring down rain and people still come to wait in a long line to get this food for their families.”
She said it’s important to provide such a basic need to the community. […]