John B. Johnson, IV Episcopal Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA) greets Bishop Tom Shaw, SSJE, as Office of Government Relations Director Maureen Shea (left) and Jayne Oasin, social justice officer for the Episcopal Church, look on. Speaking on behalf of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Episcopal Church on Dec. 18, 2007 in Washington, D.C., Bishop Tom Shaw admitted to the Congressional Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties that the Episcopal Church had "benefited materially from the slave trade," and that too many had remained silent against the injustices of the institution.

Shaw also outlined the numerous steps that the Church had taken and continues to take to repent for its complicity, citing the Church's "'commitment to become a transformed, anti-racist church and to work toward healing, reconciliation, and a restoration of wholeness to the family of God.'”

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