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 March 26, 2024
The Journey of Easter Be fruitful, resist violence, open your eyes, open your heart, feel the grace that permeates your lives, and see the awe that inhabits the whole of the universe. Live in forgiveness, embody courage, be compassionate, ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 19, 2024
The Suffering of God Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), a young, Dutch, Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz, truly believed her suffering was also the suffering of God…. “And that is all we can manage these days and also all that real...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 12, 2024
The Growing Edge Look well to the growing edge. All around us, worlds are dying and new worlds are being born. All around us, life is dying and life is being born. The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darknes...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 5, 2024
“Let’s be for something” The way to do justice is to live simply, to not cooperate with consumerism, with militarism, with all the games that have us trapped. Jesus just does it differently, ignoring unjust systems and building up ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 28, 2024
A Great Mixture We are able to recognize that we are all fragile, vulnerable, flawed human beings capable of thoughtlessness and cruelty. We also recognize that no one is born evil and that we are all more than the worst thing we have done...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 20, 2024
The God Within . . . because nothing stays the same once we have found the God within. We become new people, and in the doing, see everything around us newly too. We become connected to everything, to everyone. We carry the whole world in ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 13, 2024
Prophets Think of the prophets of recent decades: Rachel Carson warning of a silent spring, Dr. King warning of America’s unpaid promissory note coming due, César Chávez calling us to stop oppressing and exploiting farmworkers, Pope Fr...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 6, 2024
This Uncomfortable Now …what if we can choose to experience this liminal space and time, this uncomfortable now, as . . . a place and state of creativity, of construction and deconstruction, choice and transformation? I wonder whether it...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 30, 2024
The Folly of War Can the outrage at war and the transmitting of war live into our living rooms daily translate into a deeper awareness of the folly of war altogether? Might the day come soon when we can steer the vast resources—intellec...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 23, 2024
Coming Together Our very suffering now, our condensed presence on this common nest that we have largely fouled, will soon be the one thing that we finally share in common. It might well be the one thing that will bring us together politi...
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