Stephanie Spellers, St. Bartholomew’s NY, gave a progressive talk on reparations. She spoke about reparations at the Memorial Church of Baltimore where the congregation set aside 10 % of the total assets for reparations. She says that churches need to give up their identity and realize they are built on the oppression of racial minorities. This is typical of the woke Episcopal church.
“You’ve said yourself like we’re talking about money and really the whole process around reparations, the truth-seeking and the truth-speaking that have that speed or accompany reparations, something that gets disrupted, something that gets unraveled in that process,” she began. ” If we tell people, oh, it’s, it’s not a big deal, like no, the whole point is, no, this is a real sacrifice. [You] won’t just lose.”
“You won’t just have less access to your money. You will also be losing a narrative about yourself. You will not be the city on a hill. You will not be, you know, the great Savior, you will be an institution built on, literally on the backs, on the bloody backs, the scalped heads of entire peoples and so to invite folks to really sit with that is hard,” Stephanie Spellers argued.
“What we’re saying, that what we’re promising, and I think it’s why Christians have to be in this work, have to be in this conversation. What we’re promising, folks is that you know what? Yes, there will be a loss,” the activist added. ” Yes, there will be this, this narrative understanding of yourself, that that will be dismantled, something else can be born, that something else can only be born if you let go of your attachment to this identity, your attachment to sources.”
“That’s what Jesus tells them, like, where you’re you know where your treasure is there. Your heart is his invitation is your treasure over here,” she continued. ” Put your treasure, if your heart is with God, then put your heart and put your treasures, God. Your heart is with the people that God loves, the people who have suffered the most crucified classes. Then put your treasure in the Crucified classes.”
“Those are easy words say at 1240 Central on a zoom call. I don’t I’m not going to say that. I’m doing that personally, or that or that we use an institution as a whole church or doing that but I know the call is,” she admitted. Earlier this year, Bishop Sean Rowe gave a controversial sermon at the Washington Cathedral where he claimed that immigrants, refugees, and trans people are central to the gospel.
“In God’s Kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor, and the marginalized are not at the edges, fearful and alone. They are at the center of the Gospel story,” Rowe posited. He preached from Luke 2:22-40 and opened his remarks by saying that Christ advocated for an “upside down” social order and then proceeded to offer a series of progressive platitudes to thunderous applause.
He says ‘society’ tries to convince us “That, somehow, compassion is weakness. That fealty to political parties — and here, I mean either one or all of them — is somehow paramount. That differences of race, class, gender identity, human sexuality are all divisions that must somehow separate us.” He added, ” And that we should regard migrants and strangers and those among us whom we don’t understand with fear and contempt.”
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“Those divisions are not of God,” he orated. “Those who have been considered at the margins are at the center. They are the bearers of the salvation of the world. Their struggles reveal to us the Kingdom of God. This Kingdom about which Jesus speaks is upside down. It’s reversed, it’s inverted, it’s counter-cultural.” The bishop seems unaware of the irony that this ‘counter-cultural’ message is parroted by every major corporation and government agency.
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