Racial Inequality Archives - Universal Life Church Monastery Blog
March 25th, 2021
A new report from the Church of England's anti-racism taskforce recommends a quota for church leadership to atone for past racism. Their goal is that some 30% of future clergy candidates be a nonwhite ethnic minority.
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September 12th, 2019
The flagship seminary of the Episcopal Church announced a $1.7 million endowment fund for black clergy and congregations intended as reparations. The fund has many wondering whether reparations are biblically supported.
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January 22nd, 2019
Amid the media firestorm surrounding the standoff between students from a Catholic high school and a Native American man, the role that Black Israelite protesters played in starting the conflict was largely overlooked.
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September 8th, 2014
America continues to quiver in the aftermath of the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri earlier in August, sparking a reckoning on America's history of racism and racial inequality.
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February 20th, 2012
Three years ago, the Monastery addressed the important issue of personal heritage and the flag of the old Confederacy. In February, we celebrated the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the champion of ending slavery.
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