Peace & Justice: Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky

06/19/2024

Prayer for Juneteenth
On Juneteenth, we pray for the end of racism, racial inequalities and hatred in our nation, for an end to all forms of slavery and human trafficking in the world. Living in God’s grace and forgiveness, may we confess and confront our own prejudices and fears, serving as catalysts for change reconciliation and healing. Amen

03/18/2024

On this date in 1958 Thomas Merton had this epiphany
"In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness. … This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud. … I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.”

on the 50th anniversary of his vision Louisville gathered to dedication Merton Square
https://vimeo.com/38570668

12/07/2023

As negotiators work to agree on a final text, attention has turned to a fundamental question: Will the talks call for a phaseout of fossil fuels?

06/24/2022

The Episcopal Church upholds the conscience rights of pregnant women and other pregnant persons to determine whether they want to continue a pregnancy. We invite you to write your members of Congress and ask them to protect reproductive rights in federal law.

https://www.votervoice.net/EPISCOPAL/Campaigns/95943/Respond

06/24/2022

"Today's decision institutionalizes inequality because women with access to resources will be able to exercise their moral judgment in ways that women without the same resources will not."

Today the Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The court has overturned the constitutional right to abortion that was recognized in the seminal 1973 case Roe v. Wade.     While I, like many, anticipated this decision, I am deep...

03/18/2022

Merton had this epiphany 64 years ago TODAY on the 18th of March in 1958.
"In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness. … This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud. … I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.”

Merton had this epiphany on the 18th of March in 1958. "In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly…