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 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...
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Social 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 ...
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Social 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...
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Social 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 ...
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Social 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...
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Social 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...
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Social 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...
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Social 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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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 17th
A Prayer We pray for all people who suffer under oppression that they might be free. We pray for those who are marginalized who have to work harder just to live in this world. We pray for the people who come to our borders and ask that you...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 10th
A Shared Planet We must seek to unite—in all aspects of our lives—with one another and with the creatures of the earth. Such union calls us out of isolated existences into community. We must slow down, discover our essential relatednes...
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