Bishop Eaton: Remembering George Floyd

Message recorded May 15, 2025.

George Floyd: We Rise. We Resist. We Remember. Five Years Later.

May 25, 2025 marks the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. In her message to the church honoring George Floyd, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton calls our attention to how this “horrific act revealed the deadly reality of racism in the United States for many across the world.” Eaton stresses that “racism is one of many tools of white supremacy and a sin that distorts God’s image in all of us, and it stands against the Gospel we proclaim.” ________________________________________________________________________________

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