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 15, 2024
Eloheh In the Cherokee language, this concept of well-being is often called Eloheh ( pronounced ay-luh-HAY). The Cherokee meaning of well-being is deep and resonant, and it is hard to capture in English. Eloheh means “well-being,” y...
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Social Justice Corner Newsletter October 10, 2024
As we approach the General Election, our focus will be on non-partisan election engagement. Senator Raphael Warnock (GA) reminded us that "A vote is a kind of prayer about the kind of world you want to live in". The Office of Gove...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 8, 2024
Our Nobility The nobility we carry within us includes our acts of courage and endurance and trust and faith that we will carry on and that justice and peace can triumph. There is a resilience to our species and our communities that will no...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 1, 2024
Life at the Crossroads For most of my life, I have had the feeling that humanity was nearing a crossroads…Now, all of a sudden, we go around a bend and here it is. We stop, hardly able to believe that now it is happening, hardly able to be...
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Social Justice Corner Newsletter September 27, 2024
It’s
Climate Week! Join
Episcopal Public Policy Network and all those in New York this week and call on
the U.S. federal government to take global climate action. We echo the 2024
Climate Week theme: the time is now! You can take action o...
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Social Justice Corner Newsletter September 19, 2024
Last Friday, September 13, 2024, marked a grim anniversary. It has been 20 years since President George W. Bush and congressional leadership let the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 (signed into law by President Bill Clinton) expire. Since that ti...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column September 17, 2024
Sacred Beings Practitioners of nonviolence seek to become their truest selves by slowly learning to love all beings, confident that all are kin and that we are called to embody this kinship concretely, especially in the midst of our most d...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column September 10, 2024
Replenishing the Earth We need to rediscover our common experience with other creatures on Earth, and recognize that we have gone through an evolutionary process with them. They may not look like us, with their wings and scales and fur. We...
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