by aarmada | published on Jul 27, 2021 This summer, with a grant from the United Church of Christ’s Neighbors in Need offering, 24 high school students from an economically challenged Houston neighborhood learned about activism and carried out a local campaign for a $15 minimum-wage law. The idea came from the basic insight that
Executive Associate, JLCM Many of the “Witness for Justice” opinion editorials authored by our team take a form of advocacy, protest, and/or witness to highlight an injustice in some corner of our global community. Often, it is a clarion call to the members our churches, as well as to our neighbors in town squares across
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by aarmada | published on Jul 27, 2021 A United Church of Christ sanctuary church offering immigrants refuge in the Arizona borderlands will soon be offering a place of hospitality, support and hope on the Mexican side of the border for people who find themselves deported from the United States. The Shadow Rock UCC Sanctuary
by aarmada | published on Jul 27, 2021 When LGBTQ individuals near the campus of Clemson University, in the areas of upstate South Carolina unexpectedly find themselves without a home or a place to feel safe, Peace Congregational United Church of Christ will be ready to meet them. Congregation members and the Clemson community are
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Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team will take the field in 2022 with a new name: Guardians. United Church of Christ leaders welcomed the team’s July 23 announcement. For decades, the denomination has pressed for the name “Indians” to be replaced. The Guardians will start using this logo in 2022. It’s been 30 years, in fact,
United Church of Christ delegates cared enough about Robert’s Rules of Order to give them a separate vote at this year’s General Synod. The result: those rules will still be named in the UCC Bylaws as the way to conduct Synod meetings. The debate and vote took place July 18 during the closing plenary of
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And I thought I had seen it all… After you have attended a dozen or more General Synods, as I have, you get the feeling that the more things change, the more they stay the same. At least, that’s what… The post Irwin Smallwood: How I see General Synod appeared first on United Church of