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Rev. Michael J. Vinson

Reverend Michael J. Vinson is campus pastor at Purdue Lutheran ministry. He was born in Queens, grow up in Orlando and is a Luther Seminary M.Div grad. He has served in Spicer, MN; Alberta, MN; and Morris, MN. 

Rev. Angela Khabeb

The Rev. Angela T. Khabeb is a pastor on staff at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Pastor Angela completed her undergrad at Carthage College in Kenosha and graduated from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Angela and her husband, Benhi, have been married for eighteen years and they have three wonderful children Konami, Khenna, and Khonni. In their spare time, this vibrant family enjoys world music, creative writing, bike riding, unicorns, mermaids, and glitter.

Rev. Angela Shannon

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Rev. Kwame Pitts

The ‘Rev Kwame Pitts is both Pastor and Womanist Theologian in the ELCA. After serving over 4 years as clergy and 4 years pursuing her M.Div degree at LSTC as well as an STM degree from Chicago Theological Seminary she continues both her theological, academic and community activism work in her new call in Buffalo, NY

Rev. Kenneth Wheeler

Rev. Kenneth Wheeler is an African-Descent Lutheran Pastor who served 30 years as an ordained leader. He is now retired. .

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Suzannah Porter

Suzannah Porter is a former electoral campaign / nonprofit organizer who drinks too much coffee and currently serves on the Council of the ELCA Delaware-Maryland Synod.

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References

Von Drehle, David, Jay Newton-Small, and Maya Rhodan. 2015. “What It Takes to Forgive a Killer.” TIME.Com, November 12, 2015. https://time.com/time-magazine-charleston-shooting-cover-story/.
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“I am tired of waiting for the ELCA as a collective body to take meaningful actions on race. Our congregations need to do more. We need to do more. The sin of white supremacy must be called out and dismantled at every opportunity.”

R.M. Rochester NY, Upstate New York Synod

“As a pastor I try to use this event for calling attention to my racism and the racism inherent in our society. A formal day would give me further reason to continue to lift up our sin, and repentance.”

K.B. Aberdeen, SD, South Dakota Synod

“This Emanuel 9 feast day is one way the ELCA can openly confess the racism and white supremacy within its walls and cast a vision of the church on Earth as a place where we following Jesus and racism has no place among us.”

E.R. Hatboro, PA; Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod

“Author and distribute teaching tools for congregations to study racism and means of combating it.”

S.A. Cedar, MI North/West Lower Michigan Synod

Please do this no matter how many or how few people sign this petition, it’s the right thing to do. Thank you.

J.R. Freehold, NY; Upstate New York Synod

Let this be a sign of our commitment to the dismantling of racism within the ELCA.

N. W. Schererville, IN; Indiana-Kentucky Synod

“…I hope that the prayers and litanies will be boldly grounded in true liberating theology, not in white comfort, and with Black authorship; that the financial support to the memorial is substantial and recorded transparently as a step of accountability…”

R.C. Washington DC, Metropolitan Washington DC Synod

“I long for my church to more publicly and specifically confess and repent of the ways in which we contribute to white supremacy, and for us to more boldly follow the teachings of Jesus — resisting oppression and proclaiming true freedom.”

C.B.H. Canby, OR; Oregon Synod

“Speaking as a lifelong, female, white member of the ELCA we bear corporate responsibility for this ethnic cleansing. Please pass this and strongly urge all pastors to implement this as quickly as possible.”

E.C. Westminster, MD; Delaware-Maryland Synod

“It is SO important for us to be doing this at any time, but even more so given the racist and nationalistic stances of our current political leadership.”

J.J. Portland, OR; Oregon Synod

” I support increased banning guns of mass destruction and restrictions on hand guns in the US. Please forward any thing I can support on this cause.”

J.K. Beaverton, OR; Oregon Synod

“Worshiped and interviewed at Emmanuel before the shooting and was a seminary classmate of Rev Pinckney. We need to study the racism embedded in this country that led to the martyrdom of these beautiful people of God. The ELCA needs to lead. Please vote in favor!”

J.V. Holland Ohio; Northwestern Ohio Synod

This beautiful step could significantly help move our understanding and our compassion in a positive direction.

S.B. Fortine, MT; Montana Synod

“We cannot continue to be silent contributors to the discrimination and hate that is racism. We must take a stand against the hateful words and actions of citizens, representatives and leaders of the USA and this petition is a good place to start!”

E.H., Cary, NC; North Carolina Synod

“Thank you for your initiative! What a concrete way of repenting for the sins of our ancestors and our complicity in the oppression of God’s beloved.”

A.O. Kirkland, WA; Northwest Washington Synod