Six Pastors met with Representatives of three General Assembly Programs. On October 22, the Presbytery of Transylvania’s Eastern region hosted a lunch with representatives of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, the Presbyterian Hunger Program, and Self-Development of People. This is a brief report on why that conversation was
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General Assembly 2018, A Drama in 3 Acts Act I. The Prophetic March to End Cash Bail It was a glorious moment: hundreds of General Assembly commissioners marched down to the St Louis jail to support bailing out persons unable to post bail, and to oppose the cash bail mechanism
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Interviewing Alonzo Johnson, Coordinator for Self Development of People Editor’s note: Last month, Unbound wrote about reparations as beginning with investments in fully integrated and equal education, in equal access to housing and jobs, and in equal and fair prison sentencing. In continuation of that dialogue, we interviewed Alonzo Johnson, Coordinator
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People of faith must respond to parallel abuses of power at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Bears Ears National Monument. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a staple of God’s creation–a creation of which we humans are the stewards. Its vast and beautiful 19.6 million acres of wilderness are home
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Along the sidewalks of the Avenida de la Constitución, behind the Capitol of Puerto Rico (a smaller scale replica of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.), is a collection of statues called the “Walkway of the Presidents”. There you can see the statues of the presidents of the United States who
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A version of this piece was originally published in the Israel/Palestine Mission Network’s email newsletter and at Ecclesio.com. Emma González is 18 and about to graduate from high school this Spring—and she gets things done. A daughter of Cuban immigrants, González sews many of her own clothes, is the President of
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There is no such thing as race – true or false? The answer is true. Contemporary scholars agree that “race” is a recent invention. There is only one race, the human race. In fact, there is widespread agreement among scholars that race, as understood in the United States, is a
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In 1968, the Spirit was moving and doing a new thing in the fight for civil rights: a Poor People’s Campaign that sought to link issues of race and class justice and bring about transformative, moral change. 50 years later, a new Poor People’s Campaign has been building up momentum
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A version of this article was first published, originally in Spanish, on Jan 15th here. This version was first translated by the author, and then edited with his consent. In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s book The Trumpet of Conscience was published in Spanish. It includes five lectures given in
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One of the most universal and repeated messages in the Bible is that God loves justice. Yet, when the word “reparations” is thrown into the political ring as a possible counter to the damages done by slavery, even strongly progressive individuals often dismiss it as “a liberal fantasy” or “just
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