Our Social Justice & Advocacy Committee seeks to follow Jesus in the work of justice, peacemaking and advocating on behalf of the disempowered. Together we participate in justice initiatives and organizing events around issues such as food and housing insecurity, diversity and inclusion, and the protection and care of the environment.
Social Justice & Advocacy
Social Justice & Advocacy Column January 3
Helpless or Despairing? If at any time you feel helpless or despairing, remind yourself that the fight for democracy, social justice and a sustainable planet is noble. The stakes could not be higher. And we will – and must – win....
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 27
Our Common Ancestry What has been an ancient spiritual truth (love) is now increasingly verified by science: We are all indivisibly part of one another. We share a common ancestry with everyone and everything alive on earth. The air we br...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 20
Bathed in Love Don’t try to explain the Incarnation to me! It is further from being explainable than the furthest star in the furthest galaxy. It is love, God’s limitless love enfleshing that love into the form of a human being, Jesus,...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 13
A Nameless God The shadows fall. The stars appear. The birds begin to sleep. Night embraces the silent half of the earth. A vagrant and destitute wanderer with dusty feet, finds his way down a new road. A homeless God, lost in the nig...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column - December 7
Revolutionary Love By revolutionary love, I mean love beyond love that goes beyond myself to my neighbor, beyond my neighbor to the stranger, alien, other, outcast, and outsider; beyond the outsider to the critic, antagonist, opponent, a...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column November 30th
Einstein on “Optical Delusion” A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of opti...
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Social Justice Column November 23
Modest Awakenings We are not all prophets. It may not be our job to challenge authority and expose corruption. We may not be the ones to penetrate the code of sacred scriptures and feed the spiritually hungry. It may be up to others to sou...
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Social Justice Column November 15
The Gift Be still, my soul, and steadfast, Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So, be slow if you must, but let ...
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Social Justice Column
A Highway Hell "Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish,” U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told delegates (to the COP27 meeting going on now in Egypt) urging them to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels and speed funding to ...
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Social Justice Economies and Politics
God asks us to dare to create something new. We cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the crisis. We need economies that give to all access to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life:...
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