The national officers of the United Church of Christ have issued this statement to mark the 2022 observance of the U.S. holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As many gather all over this nation to remember the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us do so with
published on Jan 13, 2022 Happy New Year advocates! We’re starting off 2022 with a Getting to the Root column from our D.C. Director, Sandy Sorensen, that lays out some of our top priorities for this year, and how we will be looking to you for help. Showing Up in 2022 The work of building
Listen to the podcast Read the transcript I’m a morning person. Sleeping late means getting up at 6am. I could be up and going as early as 3:30, and usually no later than 5. The last three days of my sabbatical, I awoke at 7:15 (I hadn’t slept past 7am in decades), then 7:30, and
The Rev. Theodore H. Erickson Jr. died Jan. 9, 2022, in Ligonier, Pa., after a long illness. He was 86. Ordained in 1962, he served as a local church pastor in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania and as a social… The post The Rev. Ted Erickson, 86 appeared first on United Church of Christ. Source
UCC & CWS Grassroots Coordinator for Immigrants’ Rights The rising trend to cast blame on immigrants continues to be at the heart of U.S. politics and is growing across the globe. As we approach the State of the Union address and reflect on the last year, we realize that the Trump anti-immigrant era has left
published on Jan 12, 2022 The work of building a just world for all, through public policy advocacy and transformative public dialogue, has been so very challenging in the last several years. Here we are entering a new year of advocacy and activism, and our resilience has been stretched. I confess that I find the
Our democratic institutions are contingent on the idea that each person’s voice is represented by their vote. When people’s votes are suppressed or laws are passed to make it harder to vote, that, in turn, diminishes our democracy. We remember what Isaiah says, “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive
Disrupters practice intimidation outside the Arizona Capitol during a Jan. 6 voting rights rally. Love and compassion stood up to anger and aggression at an Arizona Peace at the Polls vigil on Jan. 6. As a crowd gathered in Phoenix on the Capitol Mall to remember the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and advocate
The United Church of Christ sent a present over the holidays to 2,950 families in Arkansas and Tennessee. People in those households have received letters, telling them their medical debt has been forgiven. In the denomination’s latest buy, 20 churches of the Missouri Mid-South Conference have abolished $3.9 million in medical debt for families in
The United Church of Christ office in Washington, D.C., is just across the street from the Capitol Building. I was on Capitol Hill when the events of Jan. 6, 2021, unfolded. Images of that day are seared in my memory. I have lived and worked in Washington for over 30 years, engaging in marches, vigils, justice