The United Church of Christ joined several siblings of faith — members belonging to Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) — on Oct. 7 for a virtual service of lament marking the year anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel, which ignited the ensuing Middle East war. The UCC is one of 35 Christian denominations
A sacrifice zone is a geographic area that has been permanently impaired by state-sanctioned environmental devastation and/or organized abandonment. Sacrifice zones exist across Mother Earth already. Some examples include mountaintop removal and open pit mines—open wounds that won’t heal—industrial farming poisoning the water in her veins and all life that depends on water, exploitative mining killing
The United Church of Christ lost a legendary leader on Sept. 9, 2024, with the passing of the Rev. Dr. F. Allison Phillips. Phillips, 87, died peacefully with his wife of 57 years, Velma, by his side. Phillips joined the national staff as executive for the American Missionary Association in 1994. He saw the association
Voting rights are disability rights. Every issue is a disability issue. The disability community is diverse and part of every community in the US. Too often disability is excluded from conversations about the economy, climate change, housing, education, jobs, and healthcare. One quarter of Americans live with disabilities and there are an estimated 40 million eligible
Last year’s All Saints Sunday was the first time that First Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C., spoke the names of the people who were enslaved on the land where the church now sits. It was once a tobacco plantation. In the service, congregants were invited to offer photos of beloved people who
A group of interfaith leaders offered public prayer and space to grieve last Tuesday for those impacted by the mass shootings that took place in Lewiston one year ago. The gathering in front of Maine’s State House in Augusta was organized by the Maine Conference of the United Church of Christ in collaboration with the
The United Church of Christ has launched an appeal and opportunities to support recovery efforts following the devastating path Hurricane Helene has left across the Southeast United States. Now four days after hitting landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, Helene has caused a death toll of at least 120 people and hundreds still missing across
Episode Summary: On this episode of Fill the JAR, we talk with Dr. Sharon Fennema, the Join the Movement Curator & Storyteller at the United Church of Christ. Dr. Fennema is a facilitator, ritualist, activist, teacher, and scholar whose work lives at the intersections of critical race, postcolonial and gender theories and embodied spiritual practices
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed,
