While we debate a secular ruling about a secular reality, not a sacramental one, our brothers and sisters in Christ are undergoing a persecution that is flying below the radar. There is a group of Americans that continue to lack rights and protection and they do not fly a rainbow flag, but they sure would like to see a rainbow.
Between 3-6 black churches have been the victims of arson attacks since the #CharlestonMassacre. Please do not let this be a quiet matter. We will not and cannot live in terror.
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About Tracy Earl Welliver
Tracy Earl Welliver is the Director of Parish Community and Engagement for LPi and an active member of Saint Pius X Catholic Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he previously served as Pastoral Associate for 22 years. Saint Pius X received the Archbishop Murphy Award in 2009 from the ICSC. Tracy is a writer, speaker, and teacher in the areas of stewardship, engagement, catechesis, and strengths theory, and has worked with Catholic communities throughout the US, Australia, and New Zealand. You can read Tracy’s Everyday Stewardship column in LPi’s CONNECT!, a bimonthly lectionary-based liturgy preparation publication. His writing can also be read on his Nutshell Blog, The Main Thing Blog, and in contributions to Catholic TechTalk. He also serves on the faculty for the ICSC Stewardship Institutes. Tracy has theology degrees from DeSales University and Duke Divinity School. He has been married 23 years and he and his wife, Mariann, have 3 children.
