Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship
“When I think about what love looks like, I see us channeling our holy rage into concrete, productive and powerful action.” - Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
God loves justice. And throughout scripture we are urged to love and seek it, as well. All Saints is committed to building diversity and equity in our neighborhood and formation in allyship.
If you are interested in being part of an ongoing racial justice effort through the All Saints Social Justice & Advocacy Committee please email office@allsaintspdx.org.
Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship
Poverty, Homelessness and the Compassion of Christ
Wednesday, May 10 at 6:00pm - Poverty, Homelessness and the Compassion of Christ: Making a connection between poverty, homelessness and compassion is central to making change in today’s society. Join All Saints Episcopal for an evening of ide...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 25
Be Resurrection Who does not seek Resurrection? Who does not seek a full and fuller life? Did Jesus not promise, “I have come that you may have life, life in abundance” (John 10:10)? How am I Resurrection ... [and] Life for others? ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 19
Praying with our Eyes Open Christians believe that when Jesus rose he walked on hard earth and ate fish caught from real, salty seas. This resurrected body points to the ultimate destiny of humanity. It says that we will not float ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 11
“I have seen the Lord.” Mary Magdalene’s sermon is mine, too. The simplest sermon. The only sermon. Nothing more is needed. Except one thing — that the “I” becomes “we.” Hers became the proclamation of those frighten...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 4
When he came He needs you That’s all there is to it Without you he’s left hanging Goes up in dachau’s smoke Is sugar and spice in the baker’s hands gets revalued in the next stock market crash he’s consumed and blown away u...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 28
A New View In her book, The Soul of Money, Lynne Twist points out that modern science is discovering a new view of the natural world. Contrary to those models of Nature as innately, intensely, and almost exclusively comp...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 21
The Will to End Poverty Today … the best hope we have of ending poverty is to bind ourselves together and demand this of our country. A mass movement for economic justice is necessary. One led by those who have had enough is stirring. W...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 14
God Breathing in Us To trust in the power of God’s grace through darkness, isolation, bitterness, and rejection is to be on the way to becoming prayer because it is the way to freedom in God. For prayer, that deep relationship ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 1
A Moment of Grace? Our oldest unity is our relationship with the earth. And yet this is the relationship that we have so deeply neglected. For many of earth’s species, we are now too late to redeem the relationship. They are bec...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 21
What Might People of Faith Brag About? Brag about justice, about the practice of economic viability in which the great money revenues of the most fabulous wealth in the world is put to use for all the neighbors in terms of health...
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