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SFGATE – San Francisco, CA – Episcopal priest describes being gassed and overrun by police at Washington church – It was 3 a.m. Tuesday before the Rev. Virginia Gerbasi was finally able to fall asleep.
Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Barre, VT – MacVean-Brown: Reaffirming our renunciation of evil – Shannon MacVean-Brown is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. This was a letter…
The Independent – NY, NY – East Hampton Protestors Demand ‘Stop The Hatred’ – Reverend Leandra Lambert, the curate of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, said on the sunny afternoon “it is a beautiful day to be alive.”
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What is Heavy Turns to Spirit
Used with permission by Carrie Newcomer
It cannot help but eventually
Become like a cup of ink
That is poured into the ocean.
I do not doubt that for a time
The ink darkens the water,
Obscures and displaces the light,
Leaching out its tendrils
Staining what it touches.
But eventually… [Continue Reading]
SFGATE
San Francisco, CA
Episcopal priest describes being gassed and overrun by police at Washington church
It was 3 a.m. Tuesday before the Rev. Virginia Gerbasi was finally able to fall asleep. Every time she started to drift off, she began thinking again of the church and the protesters and the volley of flash bombs and pellets and gas that sent them all running for cover. But what kept her awake was the anger she felt and the disbelief about what happened.
Gerbasi went on Monday to St. John’s Episcopal Church, near Lafayette Square across from the White House, to pass out water and snacks to demonstrators who had gathered to protest the death of George Floyd. She was there, she wrote later on her Facebook page, to help make the patio of the church “a place of respite and peace.” A little after 6 p.m., it became anything but. […]
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Barre, VT
MacVean-Brown: Reaffirming our renunciation of evil
Yesterday, members of our diocese prayed and fasted as we joined people of many faiths to mourn the deaths of over 100,000 people from COVID-19. We also grieved the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, Tony McDade and countless others whose lives were taken because they were black. We lamented the grip of white supremacy that has allowed them no justice. We lamented and mourned morning, noon and night. We prayed and read our sacred texts, a balm in this troubled time. […]
The Independent
NY, NY
East Hampton Protestors Demand ‘Stop The Hatred’
Reverend Leandra Lambert, the curate of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, said on the sunny afternoon “it is a beautiful day to be alive.”
“And everyone deserves the right to be alive,” she said. “Time’s up, and we have work to do.” […]