1,100 mile 'Camino' across Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin to focus on 'migrant, climate and racial justice'

Episcopalians in the Diocese of San Joaquin embarked April 22 on a 22-day tour of the central California diocese to draw awareness to the intersections of environmental disaster, racial discrimination, and migrant exploitation and to reckon with the diocese’s own complicity in unjust systems. 

The 1,100-mile pilgrimage—El Camino de la Pascua, or the Way of Easter—is led by Bishop David Rice. He and the diocese’s group of pilgrims will travel by carpool and on foot to a wide range of sites that represent what the diocese describes as contemporary places of crucifixion and resurrection, from a homeless shelter to the Sequoia National Forest. 

“Being out there engaging with partners and networks and becoming familiar with our larger context, it needs to be synonymous with the air that we breathe,” Rice said in a phone interview. “That is the road map and will continue to be the road map for this diocese for years to come.”