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
At Friedens UCC in Indianapolis, we thank God for the opportunity to serve with Sierra Nuckols, our Climate Justice Fellow, last fall. We are grateful to the National Setting of the United Church of Christ for providing the grant to make this possible for our congregation. Hosting a fellow gave our congregation an opportunity to
To the Family and Friends of the United Church of Christ, I write to apologize for the ways in which the most recent edition of the UCC desk calendar failed to live up to our commitments to be an antiracist body. It has been brought to my attention that a slight rotation of the cover
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
Listen to the podcast Read the transcript I brought home a keychain. There is nothing noteworthy, unusual, or special about the keychain as for as keychains go. It is a bauble you pick up at a souvenir stand for a couple bucks that dangles in your pocket or from the steering column of your car
There are times where my soul starts churning. A discomfort, a tumultuous sensation that rises from my gut desiring to be released as a cry of righteous indignation. It happens in moments when I am confronted with profound injustice, this need to speak truth and say, “enough is enough!” But it also happens when I
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
