Yesterday, someone associated with Grace Episcopal posted several abusive comments. I’ve included a screen cap below. And while I have turned these over to the police, as Virginia law makes direct contact of this sort potentially criminal, there’s a larger point here.
The larger point is that, even on a petition involving a dying person, people at Grace Church think this sort of thing is okay. And even having lost almost 1/3 of the church’s pledging units, a 33 percent decline in the church budget since 2008, and a 17 percent decline in attendance, they still don’t get it.
People at Grace Episcopal actually think this sort of behavior is okay for Christians. And they have absolutely no clue why 2/3 of people under age 30 have no use for organized religion, and why 1/3 are actively hostile to religion.
Please join me in sharing this petition. And if you can chip in money to help it get additional traction, even better.
And if you feel so inclined, please write to Bishop Goff at sgoff@thediocese.net to tell her what you think of the sort of childish bullying in the screen caps below.
As always, thank you so much for your generous support, and for saying no to abuse in church. Whether it is emotional, relational, physical, spiritual, sexual, or other, abuse is abuse.
Abuse is wrong.
Abuse has no place in church.
Eric