United Church of Christ delegates welcomed special guests at the start of the 34th General Synod, meeting this week in Indianapolis. Guests representing ecumenical partners and international partners from churches on five continents were welcomed with standing ovations from the people in plenary hall. The greetings started with former national and regional leaders of the
The United Church of Christ held its annual celebration and commemoration of Juneteenth virtually through reflections, music and spoken word poetry. Leaders from across the UCC and beyond addressed themes inspired by the final chapters of Ibram Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist — failure, success and survival. The book has been the focus of
Listen to the podcast Read the transcript In January of this year, I started to feel like I was on a long, slow march to goodbye. Almost every week, something would happen about which I would say “well, I’m doing that for the last time.” I have had my last Board meeting. I have taken
It was incredibly difficult to decide what topic to focus on when writing this piece. June is Pride Month, Gun Violence Awareness Month, and Torture Awareness Month. On June 19th we celebrate Juneteenth, June 20th is World Refugee Day, and June 24th marks the anniversary of the Dobbs decision that effectively overturned the constitutional right
As Mental Health Awareness Month draws to a close, a new opportunity for the United Church of Christ to support youth mental health is on the horizon. The UCC and the UCC Mental Health Network recently received a $10,000 grant from Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute. According to the Rev. Sarah Lund, UCC minister
This past year Edgewood United Church and Haslett Community Church in East Lansing, Michigan, received a grant from the National Setting of the United Church of Christ to jointly have an Environmental Justice Fellow. I was that fellow, and I want to share with you about my learning experience, especially as it relates to intergenerational
Faith leaders have been confronting multiple forms of violence and injustice in response what has become known as “Cop City” in Atlanta, according to panelists who spoke during the “Stop Cop City: A Moral Call” webinar hosted by the United Church of Christ’s Environmental Justice Ministries on May 10. The Atlanta project, authorized by the
During this post-Resurrection season of the Christian Faith, it is helpful to remember there were two sets of witnesses recorded at the empty tomb. One set of witnesses were the women, of course, who make their way in that darkness of early morn intent on ensuring Jesus has a proper burial. The other witnesses were
In researching land justice and Indigenous peoples, I came to know some remarkable organizations that raise questions which would revolutionize how churches think about our moral responsibility to both land and our neighbors. One of the organizations I discovered was Nones & Nuns, while another was the Center for Ethical Land Transition. I have participated
This May 15, Palestinians commemorate 75 years of displacement and dispossession. The Nakba, or “catastrophe,” is how Palestinians remember and refer to the events surrounding the declaration of the establishment of Israel in May 1948, when more than 400 Palestinian towns… The post The Nakba, Then and Now appeared first on United Church of Christ. Source
