What does justice look like 151 years after the Indian Island Massacre? November 17, 2011 by Austin Leininger PDF Version (Optimal
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Depending on whom you ask, The Lorax, a March 2012 film adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book, is either a fun movie about caring for the earth or blatant liberal propaganda. More likely, it is a lesson in irony: an
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Applying just peace criteria to President Obama’s call to arms The President has decided to seek Congressional approval for authorization to use force in Syria. This means that the American public has a week to debate the rationale presented for airstrikes against the Assad regime. Since the core of the
MoreThe original post can be found here. August 30, 2013 Office of the General Assembly Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk Louisville The Rev. Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) issued a statement today (August 30) in the wake of the escalating violence in Syria, calling
MoreThe Following is a direct reprint from The PCUSA Fair Food Program. This Labor Day Weekend, the PC(USA) through the Presbyterian Hunger Program/Campaign for Fair Food and the Human Trafficking Roundtable invite you to a time of prayer, fasting and action for Fair Food. These “sermon seeds” and the resources
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A NEW GENERATION BEFORE THE WALLS OF JERICHO By Jill Schaeffer It took a circuitous forty years for the Israelites to cross over the Jordan to confront and be confronted by the land of milk and honey God had promised them. Moses didn’t make it. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t
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Dear Brothers and Sisters, Grace and peace to you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! As we write to you on the eve of Labor Day 2013 we observe that these are troubled times for workers. We live in a time of high unemployment; average wages continue to
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Taking on Moral Gridlock in Washington, DC. What You Can Do About Low-Wages and Worker Injustice – by Kim Bobo and Michael Livingston, Interfaith Worker Justice. Ana Julia Fuentes has worked as a janitor at Union Station for 23 years and makes $8.75 an hour. Wilfredo Reyes Lopez is a
MoreOne of the great hallmarks of speculative fiction is that like theology, it looks at the present through the lens of the future. In the church we struggle with both ontological future and the immediate “worldly” future – the consequences of our current actions in their imagined possible contexts. This
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Echoes of Empire in the Immigration Debate. The people making the decisions about immigration use it as a political contrivance; its solutions in name are solutions to symbolic and electoral problems. Each potential humanizing improvement is met with a provision based on a rollback of reason. Nowhere do we see
MoreAs Christian peacemakers, we are grateful for the ministry of ecumenical Christian Peacemaker Teams[i] in many conflict-ridden corners of the globe. Committed to building partnerships to transform violence and oppression, CPT teams accompany and support threatened communities with an on-going presence (Colombia, Iraq, and Palestine) or periodic visits (Democratic Republic
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Members of the World Student Christian Federation (NARC) The WSCF North American Regional Committee (NARC) is currently looking to fill out its five (5) vacant positions. We are currently accepting applications from students and recent graduates from both Canada and the US to serve a two-year term in the following
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