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 October 4th
The Foundation of Life We have jeopardized the future of our coming generation with our greed and lust for power. The warnings are clear and time is now a factor. . . . We speak of our children, yet we savage the spawning beds of the salmo...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column September 27th
from “Gaia at Ely Cathedral” And is there any hope in our waking up to beauty with grief and loss, even as dust and ashes float across the sky, across us all, late as we are in our repenting? And is there hope, hope that we migh...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column September 19th
Systemic Evil I believe personal evil is committed rather freely because it is derived from and legitimated by our underlying, unspoken agreement that certain evils are necessary for the common good. Let’s call this systemic evil . Howe...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column September 13th
"Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger? Know that you yourself are essential to this Wo...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column September 5
A Prayer for Creation All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect lif...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column August 30
Who Will You Fight For? What does it mean to be a warrior-sage for a new time? Who will you fight for? What will you risk? It begins with honoring the fight impulse in you. Think about what breaks your heart. Notice what it feels like to h...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column August 23
Gift The gift structure of the universe is that of an interdependent community of nature and neighbor that extends through the ages in which we care for what was handed to us and give gifts to others as a response. This is not a closed cir...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column August 15
Who are the Ministers? It seems to me that we must begin to validate Paul’s original teaching on “many gifts and many ministries” (1 Corinthians 12:4-11). … Individual communities may do this well, but on the whole we need Christia...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column August 8
Trust vs Fear The world is how you see it and what you make of it. If you look at the world with benevolent eyes, the world reciprocates with benevolence. If you project suspicion and self-interest, you get the same in return. Trust begets...
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