The Diocese of Southern Ohio has committed $500,000 as initial funding of a racial reparations program that parallels similar efforts in other dioceses, as The Episcopal Church continues to reckon with its historic complicity with white supremacy and racist systems.
St. Andrew’s
Parishioners worship earlier this year at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, as seen on a YouTube video of the service.
Southern Ohio Bishop Kristin Uffelman White announced her diocese’s reparations funding in a Feb. 23 news release, which explained money from a diocesan endowment fund would be used to support four historically Black congregations: St. Philip Episcopal Church in Columbus; St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Trotwood, near Dayton; St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Cincinnati’s Evanston neighborhood; and St. Simon of Cyrene Episcopal Church in Lincoln Heights, near Cincinnati. To learn more, click here
