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 January 2, 2024
The Reign of God Wherever the human heart is healed, justice gains a foothold, peace holds sway, an ecological habitat is protected, wherever liberation, hope and healing break through, wherever an act of simple kindness is done, a cup of ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 26, 2023
Christ With Us Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. But now it is with the voice of our contemporaries that He speaks, with the eyes of store clerks, factory workers, and children that he gazes; with the hands...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 20, 2023
Always Christmas We’re always waiting to see Spirit revealing itself through matter. We’re always waiting for matter to become a new form in which Spirit is revealed. Whenever that happens, we’re celebrating Christmas. The gifts of i...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 12th
Joan Chittister, Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, writing from their traditions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, believe we all share equally in God’s image, even amid our joint history of violence. Today, the v...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 5, 2023
Living Contemplatively The invitation to be contemplative is nothing new, but it now carries with it an urgency particular to our time. This call to live contemplatively is offered to everyone. Often we want to relegate such a practice or ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column November 28, 2023
Maybe We Need an Emergency Maybe we need an emergency to wake us up out of our bad habits of war,
of reptilian brain responses, of patriarchy unchecked. Maybe Climate Change is that emergency. Maybe French playwright Antonin Artaud is...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column November 22, 2023
A Thanksgiving Prayer by Diana Butler Bass GOD, there are many days we do not feel grateful. When we are anxious or angry. When we feel alone. When we do not understand what is happening in the world or with our neighbors. When the ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column November 15, 2023
Grieving the Trees I’ve taken to praying outdoors. I go outside, feel the good earth beneath my feet and the wind on my face, and I sing to the trees—to oak and beech, hemlock and pines. Making up the words and music as I go along, I s...
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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...
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