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[The Episcopal News] Outrage: Feelings of sharp anger and profound sadness. These were the feelings of so many of us when we first watched the video of the beating of Rodney King. Rodney King did not live an exemplary life, but, whatever wrongs he had done, he was and is a fellow citizen and a […]
[The Episcopal News] Spared destruction in the city’s worst rioting, churches in the Los Angeles Diocese mobilized quickly to offer physical and emotional support to a dozen congregations most deeply affected by the violence. Bishop Frederick Borsch announced on the morning after the initial eruption that eight (later nine) churches would be eligible for $4,000 […]
[The Episcopal News] Declaring the need to view the devastation first-hand, Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning toured riot-torn Los Angeles on May 6 and called for an end to racial isolation. “Isolation just can’t be a part of who we are,” Browning said during a visit to St. Mary’s Parish in the heart of hard-hit […]
[The Episcopal News] A “crisis of character” provoked the violence that rocked Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told an overflow crowd gathered at All Saints Church in Pasadena on May 3. “Our character is on trial,” Jackson said in his morning homily, charging that the nation must measure its […]
