If you’ve
exhausted all options and you’re still unhappy, it may be worth taking a break
or ending the relationship. Relationships should still be fun
and you should continue to grow with a partner. If they aren’t the right fit,
don’t forget: The world is full of interesting people.
The Rt. Rev.
Deon Kevin Johnson has become the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Missouri, making him the first openly gay Black man to hold the post in the
diocese’s 179-year history.
Johnson was
ordained and consecrated Saturday in a ceremony at Christ Church Cathedral in
St. Louis. “To find ourselves in this moment, the [descendant] of a slave, to
be called to be the bishop of Missouri — God is good!” he said during his
ordination service, according to the Episcopal News Service. “To the people of Missouri, we
have a whole new story to tell and a whole new boldness to tell it with. So I
look forward to the adventure.”
An immigrant
from Barbados, Johnson has been an Episcopal priest since 2003. He was most
recently rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brighton, Mich.
In the week
following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Johnson joined
in peaceful protests in the St. Louis region. Days after the clearing of
nonviolent protesters at St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C., so Donald Trump
could have a photo op, Johnson spoke at a solidarity rally at St. John’s Episcopal
Church in St. Louis.
“Fear would
tell us that dignity belongs to some and not to others. As followers of Jesus,
we must live and know that perfect love casts out fear,” he wrote in a
statement following the rally. “We must, in the words of the Prophet Micah, ‘do
justice, love mercy and walk humbly with our God.’”
He also called
on the faithful to defend the rights and dignity of all, even those with whom
they disagree, and said racial justice will be an emphasis of his ministry. “We
must be about the mission of working for justice and showing God’s love in this
time and place,” he said. “We must be about the mission of speaking truth to
power and making no peace with oppression.”
SOURCE: ADVOCATE DOT COM
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