by admin | Feb 11, 2022 | anti-racism, community, social justice
Howard Thurman (1899-1981), theologian, author, and mentor to many leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, preached a message of radical nonviolence. In 1936, he had led a delegation to Southern Asia, where he met and conversed deeply with Mahatma Ghandi. Thurman’s...
by admin | Feb 3, 2022 | anti-racism, social justice
The June 18, 2022 Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington and to the Polls will be a generationally transformative and disruptive gathering of poor and low-wealth people, state leaders, faith communities, moral...
by admin | Jan 13, 2022 | anti-racism
MLK Day 2022, the family asks for solidarity in not “celebrating” until the current Voting Rights’ bill passes. We share the Moral Meditations from Dr. King’s letters provided by Disciples Home Missions and the National Convocation at this link. Here is one of nine...
by admin | Dec 23, 2021 | anti-racism, events, social justice
Videos: What Is Kwanzaa and How is it Celebrated from Inside Edition. Sesame Street: Kwanzaa The Story of Kwanzaa: From Civil Rights to Corporate America from Now This World. Articles: Kwanzaa by the History Channel. The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa by The National...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | anti-racism
Each week we start our worship service with an acknowledgement that we reside on land that is precious and has been cared for, loved, and held sacred by many peoples that came before us. The original inhabitants, the Hohokam and Sobaipuri people, considered the land...
by admin | Jan 29, 2021 | anti-racism
“The racial justice reckoning happening across the United States gives us an opportunity to revisit our commitment to be a pro-reconciling/anti-racist church; that is, to be the church we say we are.” –Reverend Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President...
