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Episcopal Church appoints Aaron Scott as first gender justice staff officer

Faith-based organizer Aaron Scott has been named gender justice staff officer—a new Episcopal Church position called for by the 80th General Convention that is dedicated to LGBTQ+ and women’s ministries. He will start on April 30. Scott co-founded Chaplains on the Harbor, and he most recently worked at Union Theological Seminary’s Kairos Center as project

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Aaron Scott: “Our community starts to see the system a little more clearly as we move through each fight”

I grew up attending a very rural, poor church, this tiny place in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate NY. My family was working class. My mom left home at sixteen and when I was a kid she became really involved with her union, my grandma was a factory floor organizer (once interrogated

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White Christian nationalists and a broader authoritarian movement are mounting a visionary, well-resourced, and strategically coordinated effort to ensure white Christians maintain their ongoing dominance in all sectors of U.S. society, including government, culture, media, entertainment, family, religion, and business. Our social movements, including the institutions that comprise civil society, are lagging behind as white

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Queer and Trans Leaders in the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

The uprising against police violence that took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn in June of 1969 is often considered to be the historic breakthrough moment for the LGBTQ movement in the United States. The Stonewall uprising was also a poor people’s movement. We have lost track of this in our collective, national memory.

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