Summary

Episcopal News Service – Q&A: The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas on living into the climate crisis with resilience – “There’s plenty to preach about, and I’m hoping that folks will feel encouraged…”

USA9 CBS – Teacher turns to dance to engage with special needs students – Jackie Zamora created ‘ZamDance’ as a way to broaden abilities for those with developmental challenges…

The Post and Courier – New SC Episcopal bishop’s vision for church centers on justice, racial reconciliation – Inside Episcopal Bishop Ruth Woodliff-Stanley’s office hangs a large, framed portrait of Nelson Mandela, the South African revolutionary who fought against apartheid. The portrait also includes a quote from Mandela: “Never, never and never again

————–

Q&A: The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas on living into the climate crisis with resilience

Episcopal News Service – Diocese of Western Massachusetts

The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas is looking ahead to COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which begins Oct. 31 in Glasgow, Scotland. “This is a moment when we have a chance to make our voices heard, to make it clear that Americans care deeply about the climate crisis and want solutions,” she recently told Episcopal News Service. “We have this very rare window of opportunity to push for real climate solutions that are just. There’s plenty to preach about, and I’m hoping that folks will feel encouraged.” […]

Teacher turns to dance to engage with special needs students

USA9 CBS – Bethesda, MD

There’s a special energy in one of the rooms at St. James Episcopal Church in Potomac, Maryland. This space is one of several used by Jacqueline “Jackie” Zamora where she leads a group in “ZamDance”, a dance class she created to assist children and adults with developmental differences.

“It’s a program called ‘Celebrate Ability’. I come every Friday to teach the class,” said Zamora.

There are scant few group options for those with special needs to gather for physical activity. The pandemic has only increased the difficulty. […]

New SC Episcopal bishop’s vision for church centers on justice, racial reconciliation

The Post and Courier – Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina

Inside Episcopal Bishop Ruth Woodliff-Stanley’s office hangs a large, framed portrait of Nelson Mandela, the South African revolutionary who fought against apartheid.

The portrait also includes a quote from Mandela: “Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”

The picture, a gift to Woodliff-Stanley from years back, embodies what she believes should be the core focus of the diocese: promoting justice and racial reconciliation in a state where many African American Episcopal congregations are still working to overcome legacies of discrimination. […]