Our Social Justice & Advocacy Committee seeks to follow Jesus in the work of justice, peacemaking and advocating on behalf of the disempowered. Together we participate in justice initiatives and organizing events around issues such as food and housing insecurity, diversity and inclusion, and the protection and care of the environment.
Social Justice & Advocacy
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 7
Caught Up in Things “Greedy for profit, we let ourselves get caught up in things, and lured away by haste. We did not stop at your reproach to us, we were not shaken awake by wars or injustice across the world, nor did we liste...
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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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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 14
Connectedness Connectedness is fundamental to our reality. No matter which sphere of life we observe, from the physical to the spiritual, we are connected to others. . . . Many of the social and ecological problems that confront us today s...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 7
Pocket Revolutions Revolutions do not happen only in grand moments in public view but also in small pockets of people coming together to inhabit a new way of being. We birth the beloved community by becoming the beloved community. . .. W...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 31
Church is Not a Building As millions have discovered in these many months, Jesus was not confined to a building. Jesus was around our tables at home, with us on walks and hikes, present in music, art, and books, and visible in faces via Zo...
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