Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship
“When I think about what love looks like, I see us channeling our holy rage into concrete, productive and powerful action.” - Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
God loves justice. And throughout scripture we are urged to love and seek it, as well. All Saints is committed to building diversity and equity in our neighborhood and formation in allyship.
If you are interested in being part of an ongoing racial justice effort through the All Saints Social Justice & Advocacy Committee please email [email protected].
Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship
Juneteenth Portland Pickles Game 2024
Thank you to everyone who supported the Voices Project through the Juneteenth Portland Pickles game. This month we say "till we meet again" to Rev. Leroy Barber who is moving to Atlanta. Our prayers go with him and his wife Donna with gratitude f...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column June 11, 2024
Church at the Margins As long as the Church bore witness from the margins in some sense, and as long as we operated from a minority position, we had greater access to the truth, to the Gospel, to Jesus. In our time we have to find a way to...
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Juneteenth Portland Pickles Game
Come celebrate Juneteenth with The Voices Project at the Portland Pickles game on Wednesday, June 19th! 50% of proceeds from tickets purchased here will benefit The Voices Project. Tickets will be delivered to your email up to 24 Hours prior to...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column June 5, 2024
Our Only Option You would think that changes in the planet’s climate would take a very long time and changes in human opinion and action could happen fast. You’d think that sentience would be an aid. But, instead, it appears that we ar...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column May 28, 2024
Will we succeed? “We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?” ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column May 22, 2024
A Dream of Creation This is my dream, and perhaps it is your dream, and our dream, together: that in this time of turbulence when worlds are falling apart, all of us with willing hearts can come together … together with one another, poor...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column May 14, 2024
Not Science but Love The key to stopping the environmental apocalypse is not science but love. For decades now we have been staring at the scientific reports. They have not sufficiently inspired us to change our apocalyptic reality. But wh...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column May 8, 2024
Practice Resurrection Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts… Practice resurrection. — Wendell Berry
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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 23, 2024
A Declaration of Collective Atonement on the Part of Jews of Conscience Jewish tradition teaches us to love the stranger, for we were strangers once ourselves, as slaves in Egypt…. In this time of deep despair, all of...
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