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
Social Justice & Advocacy Column November 8, 2023
Love and Peace Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. Know that the truth always leads to love and the perpe...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column October 30th
Neighbors One of the most familiar of Jesus’s teachings is “Love your neighbor as yourself” [Mark 12:31; Matthew 22:39]. But we almost always hear that wrong. We hear “Love your neighbor as much as yourself.”. . . If you listen...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column October 24th
The End of the World We are coming to the end of the world, or at least to the end of a world. How it ends will be very much up to us. We have many choices in front of us, but not this one—that the world we know is ending. What has been ...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column October 17th
A Prayer We pray for all people who suffer under oppression that they might be free. We pray for those who are marginalized who have to work harder just to live in this world. We pray for the people who come to our borders and ask that you...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column October 10th
A Shared Planet We must seek to unite—in all aspects of our lives—with one another and with the creatures of the earth. Such union calls us out of isolated existences into community. We must slow down, discover our essential relatednes...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column October 4th
The Foundation of Life We have jeopardized the future of our coming generation with our greed and lust for power. The warnings are clear and time is now a factor. . . . We speak of our children, yet we savage the spawning beds of the salmo...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column September 27th
from “Gaia at Ely Cathedral” And is there any hope in our waking up to beauty with grief and loss, even as dust and ashes float across the sky, across us all, late as we are in our repenting? And is there hope, hope that we migh...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column September 19th
Systemic Evil I believe personal evil is committed rather freely because it is derived from and legitimated by our underlying, unspoken agreement that certain evils are necessary for the common good. Let’s call this systemic evil . Howe...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column September 13th
"Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger? Know that you yourself are essential to this Wo...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column September 5
A Prayer for Creation All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect lif...
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