The Episcopal New Service (ENS) recently published an article detailing the recent actions of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio on the subject of reparations. They report:
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. 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. “This action does not indicate the completion of this work, nor the end of anticipated restitution of financial resources,” White said in the news release. “Rather, it marks an important first step in an ongoing process and demonstrates a meaningful financial commitment to reinvest in the vitality and self-determination of our Black leadership and communities.”
For more information read the full ENS article HERE.
