Commentary: No Ban, No Raids, No Wall: Sanctuary for All
"No ban, no raids, no wall." This is the chant that was born out of the first Muslim and refugee...
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Climate Connections: From Scripture to the Pressing Issue of Our Generation
Reflection on the October 1st Lectionary Reading—Exodus 17: 1-17 It has been said that climate...
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Commentary: Rising Up for Equality
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from thwarting the exercise...
Read MoreA Case for the Mother of the Environmental Justice Movement: Dollie Burwell
Dollie Burwell with the children and youth of Oak Level UCC While any social movement owes its...
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Romanos 13:10 (NIV) “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the...
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Commentary: Our Displaced Neighbors
It has been so sad to watch the destruction Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have wreaked on Houston,...
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How the Attention Span of Adults Hurts Children: The Lasting Impact of Hurricanes
With media coverage that swivels its focus at a dizzying speed, the attention span of adults has...
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In Pursuit of Racial Justice: Reclaiming My Time, Reclaiming My Wage
By Liz S. Alexander and Melanie C. JonesBlack women lose $1 million dollars a year as a result of...
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Romanos 13:10 (PDT) “El amor no le causa daño a nadie; así que el amor satisface toda la...
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Creation Justice and Emerging Models of Church
Progressive Christian leaders such as Cameron Trimble and John Dorhauer have been leading a...
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Invitation to Pollinate: Another Way to Bee the Church
As I whisked my two-year old daughter to the restroom at our local nature center, my eyes landed...
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“A True Game Changer”: Toxic Wastes and Race 30 Years Later—An Interview with Charles Lee
Thirty years ago Charles Lee was principal author of the landmark report "Toxic Wastes and Race in...
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A Farm Church Seeks Rural Renewal through its Creation Care Ministry
In 2016, a farm church called The Keep & Till was founded in Carroll County, Maryland. The...
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Commentary: Where Is the Hope?
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will...
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JPANet September 2017 Newsletter
Stand with Immigrant Youth Take Action: Tell Congress to Pass the Dream ActPresident Trump has...
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WWJB – What Would Jesus Budget?
This summer I marked my tenth year of working for the United Church of Christ’s Washington, DC...
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Florence Alden Partridge
She was always an advocate for women, even before many church people recognized the need to...
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Commentary: With Hurricane Harvey, a Compassion Deficit and Trump’s Paris Problem
When hurricanes or floods strike, we often witness a remarkable mobilization of compassion through...
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Commentary: This Little Light
In Charlottesville two weeks ago, I experienced a darkness I cannot describe.I felt that darkness...
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Romans 12:2 (NRSV) “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your...
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