As many as 100,000 church-owned buildings are expected to be sold or repurposed by 2030, according to an analysis in a new book, “Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition.”

The Episcopal Church has begun to reckon with the outsized role it played in the history of Indigenous children from Florida to Alaska being taken away, sometimes by force, to residential schools run by the government and often by denominations that operated under government contracts.