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Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Watch our 4-minute video, featuring diverse voices from around the Episcopal Church, recorded for "Love Casts Out Fear: An Inauguration Eve Vigil" on Sunday, Jan. 19.
Video of the full vigil held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston is posted on YouTube (start at the 21:50 mark for audio, and access the worship bulletin here), which held sacred space for the Christian teaching that love casts out fear, the church stands with the marginalized, and love in practice looks like justice and peace.
Jan. 14th: “Praying, Preaching, and Peacemaking with the Rev. Winnie Varghese”
This hybrid program, organized and hosted by our EPF Rhode Island chapter, was organized to help Clergy, Lay Preachers, & other church leaders to more effectively engage peacemaking from the pulpit. The live hybrid event included both online and in-person attendees. Our keynote speaker was the Rev. Winnie Varghese, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta GA.
A national leader in The Episcopal Church, Reverend Varghese is widely recognized for her inspired writing, teaching, and preaching. She previously served as priest for ministry & program coordination at Trinity Church, Wall Street and as rector at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church in NYC.
EPF Chapters & Peace Partners
EPF chapters are regionally-based and work on local peace initiatives within their parish and communities as well as on national and international issues. Chapters sponsor and co-sponsor prayer and public witness such as peace vigils, liturgies, service projects and demonstrations. Peace Partner parishes are based out of a specific parish.
Action Groups
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Gun Violence Prevention
These resources can open a door to commitment and creativity. The actions listed here are ideas based on what people committed to gun violence prevention are already doing. But you are the experts on your parish community and know best what would work in your local context. If you have ideas that should be listed here, please share them with this resource page. This is just a starting point for all of us, offering a few suggestions for action. Let the winds of the Spirit blow.
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Death Penalty Abolition
The Death Penalty is incompatible with the teachings of Christ. Join with others across the country who wish to pray, study, and take action, to make this barbaric, racist practice "history" in our country.
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Palestine Justice Network
Our mission is dedicated to a more robust Episcopal Church witness for justice and peace in Palestine and Israel and is a response to: the promise made in our baptismal covenant to “ … strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being”; the call in 2005 by Palestinian Civil Society for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions until Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights, a call supported by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship; and the prayerful call of Palestinian Christians expressed in the 2020 Kairos Palestine Cry for Hope.
