Every Sunday, hundreds of UCC pastors, ministers, liturgists, and lay people proclaim that, ‘no matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here!’ And they say it from an altar that they probably walked… The post The ADA and The Church….It’s Complicated! appeared first on United Church of Christ.
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
I confess that throughout my life as an evolving queer organizer, I haven’t always been deeply aware of the intersectional components of systemic oppression. It’s easier to walk behind the footprint of another than to make new ones. Perhaps, that is why taking our shoes off in holy spaces means so much more—the footprint can
Not that many years ago both churches and social movements dived into figuring out how to make use of social media and digital technologies to extend their reach and grow their numbers. Everyone wanted to go viral and experience the apparent promise and magic of instant “success.” With time, has come reflection. With social movements,
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
