Saturday, January 24, 2015

Episcopal bishop urges action on racial inequality

From Pittsburgh-

The leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh on Friday issued “A Pastoral Letter on Race,” decrying racial oppression and suggesting ways that the church and members of its congregations could move society closer toward reconciliation.

“There is a sort of sullen denial across much of our culture as if race were not a problem or, to the extent that it is, that it will someday, somehow, simply go away. [That] we have done enough,” Bishop Dorsey McConnell said in an open letter to the 9,000 members of 37 Episcopal congregations in the 11 counties of southwestern Pennsylvania.

“But we have clearly not done enough. We have heard a great deal recently about growing income inequality in our nation. This inequality of class is inseparably linked to inequality of race.”

More here-

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2015/01/24/Episcopal-Diocese-of-Pittsburgh-bishop-urges-action-on-racial-inequality/stories/201501240127

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