Testing Justice: the Divide of COVID-19 Vaccine Access Globally

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every country around the world. Yet, we’ve seen developing countries shut out from vaccine access, while developed countries have horded supplies to make vaccines along with manufactured doses. This divide has impacted our global partners…

Pulse 5 years after, a Remembrance

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This service will honor the lives of those lost on June 12, 2016, at the Pulse Club in Tampa Florida. This hate crime took the life of 49 people at LGBTQ Club on Latin night. We will remember with music,…

Sexuality & The Black Church

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Ministers for Racial, Social, and Economic Justice (MRSEJ) is launching a curriculum intended to address the historical challenges faced around fully embracing all expressions of Black sexuality. While such challenges are not unique in any expression of the church regardless…

Reparatory Justice and Reparations: Truth-Telling, Conciliation, and Healing

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The Case for Reparations is a national and global movement for people of African descent—enslaved Africans and their descendants globally. Reparatory justice is also needed for descendants of Indigenous peoples including Native Americans, Latin Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders/Hawaiians whose legacies include,…

Creating Rituals for our Virtual Synod Worship

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This session, led by Rev. Tracy Howe, Worship Director for General Synod, and Rev. Nancy Rosas, pastor at Pilgrim St. Lukes in Buffalo, NY and part of the Synod Worship Planning Team, we will continue to prepare our hearts and…

Focus on the Philippines: Stop Red Tagging

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The alarming human rights situation in the Philippines is drawing international concern. Following the June 2020 Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report, people’s organizations and civil society demanded an independent international investigation of the Philippine…

Take a Stand: Stop Line 3

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The Line 3 Expansion is a massive tar sands oil pipeline under construction through the heart of Northern Minnesota. If completed, it would cross a hundred waterways, including the headwaters of the Mississippi River. It would also pass near the…

Together in Hope: A Journey through Southern Asia

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Join Brande Crosby, Global Ministries Communications Associate, at the premier of a 37-minute travel documentary, “A Story from Southern Asia”, on her encounters with people and their initiatives for change. To make connections between continents for Global Ministries’ Southern Asia…

United Black Christians (UBC) Celebrates Juneteenth

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On June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, a U.S. federal proclamation was read notifying people of African Descent were all free and that slavery was abolished. This date has since been commemorated as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day and/or…

A Juneteenth Celebration with Stories and Sacred Music

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Juneteenth marks the official end of slavery in the U.S. The original legal declaration was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln which instituted Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration honoring the end of slavery in the United States.…