We Need Racial Justice and Repair Now More than Ever

As we enter more deeply into this church season after the Epiphany, the glorious white vestments of Jesus’ birth and Epiphany and Baptism are put away, and we enter into the day-to-day work of what is sometimes called ordinary time, a flash of green on these snowy winter weeks.
The Scriptures that greet us on Sundays now remind us again and again what true discipleship asks of us, what the baptismal covenant that we recited at the Baptism of the Lord currently requires of us. The Feast of Absalom Jones, which the church celebrates on 2/13, reminds us of the power of such discipleship in our own city and in the world.
In these not-so-ordinary times, the courageous action that is empowered by our Baptismal covenant is needed now more than ever.
Now more than ever racial justice and repair is essential to the work, especially as it intersects with the safety of LGBTQIA people, of women, of immigrants and people without documents, of people marginalized by poverty, illness and social abuses, and of the earth as it undergoes ever expanding climate catastrophe. The Gospel calls us to stand with those among us who are hit first and worst by threats to their human dignity now more than ever.
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