Just When I Thought The Episcopal Sect Had No Causes Left...

A friend sent me this latest affrontery from the Episcopal sect, 

The Episcopal Church Foundation is excited to announce the three individuals named to the 2022 Fellows class – Matthew Lukens, Kerlin Richter and Dustin Seo. These innovative and emerging leaders are pairing their expertise with their passion to make a positive impact on the Episcopal Church and beyond.

As ECF’s longest running program, the Fellowship Partners Program has been supporting entrepreneurial leaders since 1964. Initially started to support academics with intentions to teach in seminaries, the Fellowship has expanded over the years to lift up emerging academic and ministry leaders who seek to impact the wider Church. ECF is proud to partner with our 2022 Fellows and is excited to journey with them as they shape the Episcopal Church of the future. To view a list of all ECF Fellows, click here.

The three recipients’ ministry projects show a Church that is engaged in a changing world. The 2022 Fellows are exploring a new ministry on a college campus, rethinking sex education for clergy and using music as an outreach tool. Read more about the 2022 Fellows and their projects below.

The Rev. Kerlin Richter is the Rector of Saint David of Wales Episcopal Church in Portland, OR, and was church planter of Bushwick Abbey, a creative Episcopal church plant in Brooklyn, NY. Her visionary project, In The Flesh: Intimacy, Consent, and Pleasure for Faithful People, will allow her gifts of inquiry, creativity, and imagination to open a conversation at the intersection of faith and sexuality that seeks to reframe how we talk about sex in our faith communities. Kerlin currently sits on the Diocese of Oregon’s Task Force for Trans and Non-binary Rights, and she also serves on the Oregon Human Rights Commission for the Decriminalization of Sex Work.

The Oregon Human Rights Commission for the Decriminalization of Sex Work appears to be a private group and not one commissioned by the state government.

Just when I thought The Episcopal Sect had no causes left to defend this pops up. Is it any wonder that Episcopalians are dying out. 

Some visionary.