A former parish priest argued that he neither broke his ordination vows nor violated church canons by engaging in a “Eucharistic fast” as a protest against the Episcopal Church’s complicity in white supremacy.
The pandemic undoubtedly did more than any other factor to affect the lives of Episcopalians and the workings of the Episcopal Church in 2020 -- and the pandemic dominated TLC's news coverage. But racial issues provided another strong theme, as the Church joined society's anguished considerations of racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.