What “I Can Breathe Now” provides is a crucial reminder that racial strife does not have the final word and that even death is not the end of the story.
This has been a reminder to the Episcopal Church that this is long work. We are called to repenting, accounting, and reconciling with our own history of being complicit in systemic racism.
Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry says "somethings different" about the current unrest. The Church is on budget now, but beginning to plan for potential reductions.
"If people of goodwill and human decency come together and say, ‘we’re going to be a people of love ... we’re going to be a people worthy of the name American', then, we will be a shining city upon a hill."
The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde: ""The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition ... as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus,"
