Explore your personal story in the context of our weekly Gospel reading. Where do you see yourself in the story? All are welcome!
Our weekly Circles of Practice continue to meet. Join anytime!
Email Amy for the Zoom info.

This year's Absalom Jones Annual Symposium and Worship featured an incredible panel of educators, social justice champions, and faith leaders. The program focused on the impact of racial inequities on environmental justice here in America.
Betsy Schram, co-owner of The Bookshelf in Madeira, OH, and co-facilitator for Sacred Ground compiled a book list for examining racial history.

You can also dismantle racism with picture books, with this list complied by Miriam McKenney, Development Director for Forward Movement.
Ohio Council of Churches Advocacy Day: A Day of Public Witness will take place on March 23. Join the Ohio Council of Churches and the Hunger Network of Ohio for a day of public witness regarding the State Biennial Budget. Budgets are moral documents that establish Ohio's priorities for the next two years. Come be inspired as we prepare for meetings with members of the Ohio General Assembly to speak against hunger, homelessness, and inequity.
Members of the House of Representatives recently reintroduced the Equality Act (H.R. 5) with 223 cosponsors. This bill is a piece of federal legislation that would for the first time include sexual orientation and gender identity alongside race, gender, religion, national origin, age, and disability as protected classes where federal law bans discrimination. The Equality Act passed in the House of Representatives in May 2019, but it never received a vote in the Senate. Write to your members of Congress and ask them to support this legislation today.
Creation Justice Ministries presents Climate Justice on Sacred Ground: The Role of Church Lands in Resilience and Adaptation.

On this webinar, you’ll hear inspiring stories of land regeneration, transformation, and adaptation in the face of the storm of the climate crisis, and gain some tools to leverage your own church land for climate resilience. Join us in sowing the seeds that some day, like a mustard seed, might grow into a hub of life.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”

In conjunction with the BE LOVE campaign, The King Center presents a 3-part training series that will feature a study of this quote and other Kingian teachings that can help us ‘Be Love’ to create the Beloved Community. Dates are posted through July.
“From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference” is a campaign inviting Episcopalians and our neighbors to engage in one-to-one listening and sharing across the many differences that separate us. Join a conversation!
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