Incarceration, which has long been used as a social tool to criminalize and remove Black, Brown, Indigenous, low-income, and people of color from their families and communities, is also used…

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu Too often throughout history we see people of faith complacent and…

Beyond Translation: Cultivating Racial Justice Solidarity I was invited to the third annual conference “Church and Racism”, a gathering for BIPOC faith leaders—clergy, theology students, lay leaders, and white allies. …

An open letter, …and we’re still here. In the U.S., 22 of my trans brothers and sisters (mostly of color) killed this year so far, by last count… But no…

Invited by its pastoral team to honor Black History | Black Futures month each Sunday of February 2020, the congregation of Danville (CA) Congregational Church UCC centered its worship life…

From the time it formed and developed in 2016, the UCC Council for Climate Justice has made a central commitment to “addressing the root causes of climate-related pollution as it…

The Mennonite Center for Justice, Peace and Nonviolent Action (Justapaz), a longstanding Partner of Global Ministries, invited me to participate in a virtual visit to several communities in the “Bagre”…

Simply stated, this ‘sacred’ relationship began as a ‘chance’ meeting: two women, one of African descent and the other of European, meeting for the first time in a zoom room…

“How do we have conversations about racism in our schools especially if people don’t realize they are racist?” “How can we build the muscle to have the courage to talk…

Exploring the complexities of First Church’s involvement in both abolition and segregation, and the recognition of the story of the land upon which it was built, members of the community…

This video highlights Admiral Congregational United Church of Christ’s year-long, multi-faceted study series of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, launched in 2021 during the pandemic.…

On September 15, 1963, four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite inside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama to explode precisely as the children attending Sunday…

“A racist is someone who is supporting a racist policy by their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea. An antiracist is someone who is supporting an antiracist policy…

Like many of us in the wake of the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020, the First Congregational Church of Long Beach felt it imperative that…

I first met Charlotte at a rally in front of ICE offices in San Francisco. It was a chilly morning of January 2019, and the Interfaith Coalition for Human Integrity…

JTM: How would you describe your theory/theology of change?  In your experience, how does transformation happen?  Rev. Lee: Transformation cannot just happen with ideas and information. I used to do…

The drums are an important part of African heritage and tradition. The beat of the drum is more than music and rhythm. The drums hold traditions and rituals that are…

by Rev. Kathryn Schreiber, Pastor, Berkeley Chinese COMMUNITY Church, UCC On a cool, drizzly early spring afternoon in 2016 folks gathered in Berkeley near a vacant parking lot. We had…