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 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 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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Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 12, 2024
The Growing Edge Look well to the growing edge. All around us, worlds are dying and new worlds are being born. All around us, life is dying and life is being born. The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darknes...
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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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