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 March 5, 2024
“Let’s be for something” The way to do justice is to live simply, to not cooperate with consumerism, with militarism, with all the games that have us trapped. Jesus just does it differently, ignoring unjust systems and building up ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 28, 2024
A Great Mixture We are able to recognize that we are all fragile, vulnerable, flawed human beings capable of thoughtlessness and cruelty. We also recognize that no one is born evil and that we are all more than the worst thing we have done...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 20, 2024
The God Within . . . because nothing stays the same once we have found the God within. We become new people, and in the doing, see everything around us newly too. We become connected to everything, to everyone. We carry the whole world in ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 13, 2024
Prophets Think of the prophets of recent decades: Rachel Carson warning of a silent spring, Dr. King warning of America’s unpaid promissory note coming due, César Chávez calling us to stop oppressing and exploiting farmworkers, Pope Fr...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column February 6, 2024
This Uncomfortable Now …what if we can choose to experience this liminal space and time, this uncomfortable now, as . . . a place and state of creativity, of construction and deconstruction, choice and transformation? I wonder whether it...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 30, 2024
The Folly of War Can the outrage at war and the transmitting of war live into our living rooms daily translate into a deeper awareness of the folly of war altogether? Might the day come soon when we can steer the vast resources—intellec...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 23, 2024
Coming Together Our very suffering now, our condensed presence on this common nest that we have largely fouled, will soon be the one thing that we finally share in common. It might well be the one thing that will bring us together politi...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 10, 2024
From “The Work of Christmas” When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find t...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 2, 2024
The Reign of God Wherever the human heart is healed, justice gains a foothold, peace holds sway, an ecological habitat is protected, wherever liberation, hope and healing break through, wherever an act of simple kindness is done, a cup of ...
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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...
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