Social Justice & Advocacy

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 Column: Love and Justice

“…people like Jesus and Paul were not executed for saying, “Love one another.” They were killed because their understanding of love meant more than being compassionate toward individuals, although it did include that. It also meant standi...

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: The Sound of the Genuine

Right now, much work waits to be done. In politics, we’ve been studying war for centuries. We must now study how to create the conditions for deep and lasting peace. In many sectors of religion, we’ve been obsessed for centuries with escaping...

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: There is Plenty

There is no scarcity. There is no shortage. No lack of love, of compassion, of joy in the world. There is enough. There is more than enough. Only fear and greed make us think otherwise. No one need starve. There is enough land and enough food. ...

"Uprooted: An Art Collection Inspired by Refugee Identity and Resilience"

"Uprooted” is an initiative to support local artists and refugees in the U.S., and around the world. Their art gives visual representation to their stories, dreams, and experiences. All Saints was honored to showcase works by refugee artists wh...

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Miraculous Drops of Water

I can see that one loving gesture is practically divine. We have to do small things and believe a big difference is coming. It’s like the miraculous drops of water that seep through mountain limestone. They gather themselves into springs that f...

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Making Radical Changes

We must expand our imaginations and act on that bigger understanding of our place in the world and our impact on the future. That means making radical changes, like our homes and transit being powered by renewables, our government not plotting mo...

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Called to be Saints

For us to regard the threat of climate catastrophe, nuclear war, the dying seas, or the poisoned air as a monstrous injustice suggests that we never took seriously the injunction to love. Perhaps we all thought that Gautama [the Buddha] and Jesus...

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Stardust and Divine Spark

We come from mystery and return to it at the end of the life journey. What a gift to be on earth during an era when the universe is making itself known to and through the human race. We are part of an unfolding that is ongoing, yet, around the pl...

Social Justice & advocacy Column: The Webb Telescope

We will recover our sense of wonder and our sense of the sacred only if we appreciate the universe beyond ourselves as a revelatory experience of that numinous presence whence all things come into being. Indeed, the universe is the primary sacred...

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Gun Safety Initiative Is Now Ballot Measure 14

Thanks to the efforts of dedicated volunteers and many thousands of petition signers, the gun safety initiative shared at church and all across the state has been accepted by the Oregon Secretary of State’s office and will be on the November ba...

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Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Love and Justice

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: ​The Sound of the Genuine

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: ​There is Plenty

"Uprooted: An Art Collection Inspired by Refugee Identity and Resilience"​

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: ​Miraculous Drops of Water

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: ​Making Radical Changes

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: ​Called to be Saints

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: ​Stardust and Divine Spark

Social Justice & advocacy Column: ​The Webb Telescope

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: ​Gun Safety Initiative Is Now Ballot Measure 14

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: The Sound of the Genuine

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: There is Plenty

"Uprooted: An Art Collection Inspired by Refugee Identity and Resilience"

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Miraculous Drops of Water

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Making Radical Changes

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Called to be Saints

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Stardust and Divine Spark

Social Justice & advocacy Column: The Webb Telescope

Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Gun Safety Initiative Is Now Ballot Measure 14