Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship
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“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 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...
Read MoreSocial 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...
Read MoreSocial 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...
Read MoreSocial 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 ...
Read MoreSocial 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...
Read MoreSocial 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 ...
Read MoreSocial 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...
Read MoreSocial 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...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column October 30th
Neighbors One of the most familiar of Jesus’s teachings is “Love your neighbor as yourself” [Mark 12:31; Matthew 22:39]. But we almost always hear that wrong. We hear “Love your neighbor as much as yourself.”. . . If you listen...
Read MoreSocial Justice & Advocacy Column October 24th
The End of the World We are coming to the end of the world, or at least to the end of a world. How it ends will be very much up to us. We have many choices in front of us, but not this one—that the world we know is ending. What has been ...
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