by The Rev. Ernestein Flemister | May 8, 2025 | Blog, Community, Engaging Racial Justice Working Group, Featured News
I invite you to step outside your comfort zones and into the wider world to celebrate Juneteenth with neighboring communities. In my travels across the diocese, I’ve often heard that there are few or no African Americans in your churches and communities. This...
by The Rev. Ernestein Flemister | Apr 10, 2025 | Blog, Community, Engaging Racial Justice Working Group
The Truth and Conciliation Commission of the Diocese of Eastern Oregon and our Truth and Reconciliation and Engaging Racial Justice groups have recently been meeting jointly on the issues of conciliation and reconciliation. We feel it is helpful and important to...
by The Rev. Ernestein Flemister | Jan 30, 2025 | Blog, Engaging Racial Justice Working Group
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been dead for 57 years now and most of us honor his legacy on the third Monday of January each year. What exactly is the legacy that we honor and acknowledge? Most people know Dr. King for his most famous “I have a dream” speech....
