Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship
“When I think about what love looks like, I see us channeling our holy rage into concrete, productive and powerful action.” - Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
God loves justice. And throughout scripture we are urged to love and seek it, as well. All Saints is committed to building diversity and equity in our neighborhood and formation in allyship.
If you are interested in being part of an ongoing racial justice effort through the All Saints Social Justice & Advocacy Committee please email [email protected].
Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship
Social Justice & Advocacy Column May 22, 2024
A Dream of Creation This is my dream, and perhaps it is your dream, and our dream, together: that in this time of turbulence when worlds are falling apart, all of us with willing hearts can come together … together with one another, poor...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column May 14, 2024
Not Science but Love The key to stopping the environmental apocalypse is not science but love. For decades now we have been staring at the scientific reports. They have not sufficiently inspired us to change our apocalyptic reality. But wh...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column May 8, 2024
Practice Resurrection Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts… Practice resurrection. — Wendell Berry
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 30, 2024
Never Enough The course we are on assures us of a predictable future of strained individualism, environmental destruction, severe competition as resources dwindle for a growing population, and perpetual war. Our culture ingrains in us the ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 23, 2024
A Declaration of Collective Atonement on the Part of Jews of Conscience Jewish tradition teaches us to love the stranger, for we were strangers once ourselves, as slaves in Egypt…. In this time of deep despair, all of...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 16, 2024
Dying and Resurrection Things change and grow by dying to their present state, but each time it is a risk. We always wonder, “Will it work this time?” So many academic disciplines are coming together, each in its own way, to say there�...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 9, 2024
Easter People We have an invitation to go to church in a new way, by praying before the new leaves budding through dormant trees or the wobbly flowers by the side of the road pushing through the solid earth…. [Like Francis of Assisi,] w...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 2, 2024
Easter Easter is the feast of hope. This is the feast that says God will have the last word and that God’s final judgment is resurrection. God will turn all that we maim and destroy and hurt and punish into life and beauty… So to...
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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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