Commentary: Welcome the Stranger Without Caveats or Conditions
As a longtime advocate for just immigration reform, I have been following and amplifying the call...
Read MoreAs a longtime advocate for just immigration reform, I have been following and amplifying the call...
Read MoreAs Congress takes up a long-promised bill to reform our federal taxes, we are once again thrust...
Read MoreIn the past year, I have visited with our global mission partners in the Middle East, in Colombia,...
Read MoreRecently a friend mentioned that they needed health insurance, but weren't sure if they could still...
Read MoreIn the Caribbean people look up and see God in the winds. They sense God's overwhelming presence in...
Read MoreAs people of faith, members of the United Church of Christ are committed to loving creation, our...
Read More"No ban, no raids, no wall." This is the chant that was born out of the first Muslim and refugee...
Read MoreThe First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from thwarting the exercise...
Read MoreIt has been so sad to watch the destruction Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have wreaked on Houston,...
Read More"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will...
Read MoreWhen hurricanes or floods strike, we often witness a remarkable mobilization of compassion through...
Read MoreIn Charlottesville two weeks ago, I experienced a darkness I cannot describe.I felt that darkness...
Read MoreOne of the Three Great Loves included in this recently announced initiative is the Love of...
Read MoreI reluctantly open news apps on my cell phone and laptop computer because I anticipate the...
Read MoreFor faith advocates working to bring the voices and concerns of the most vulnerable in our...
Read MoreWith its new Mission Statement, the United Church of Christ is committed to exploring what it takes...
Read MoreWhen his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he...
Read MoreStigma kills.Hidden in attitudes, in what's not said aloud, in exclusion and revulsion, stigma...
Read MoreIgnoring climate change won't make the problem go away. But a bunch of other things already are,...
Read MoreWe are a multifaceted people. We have breathed in the history of pain and breathed out the despair...
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