Sep 14, 2021 | Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, Environmental, General, Human Rights, Media Coverage, News, North America, Racial, Social Justice
September 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest that took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for two tumultuous months in 2011. The action began with little fanfare on September 17, 2011, but soon captured worldwide attention. It...
Jun 19, 2021 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Human Rights, North America, Racial, Uncategorized
In my inbox this morning from a major nonprofit organization that should have known better was a Juneteenth celebratory greeting: “We proudly celebrate Juneteenth, the day slavery finally came to an end throughout the South — historically a monumental feat for...
May 17, 2021 | Community, Events, General, Interfaith, News, North America, Peacebuilding, Prayer
We invite you to join us on our Facebook page on May 21, 2021 for the livestream of the launch of the Walter Wink & June Keener Wink Fellowship! The Winks dedicated their lives to integrating theological understanding with embodied courage and imagination, thereby...
Apr 27, 2021 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, General, Human Rights, Interfaith, News, Peacebuilding, Racial, Social Justice
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me…because the Lord hath anointed me… to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those that are bound.” –Isaiah 61:1 The death penalty is “an inadmissible attack on the inviolability and dignity of the...
Apr 21, 2021 | Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Community, FORusa Feature, General, News, North America, Press Releases, Racial, Social Justice
With the eyes of the world trained on Minneapolis, something practically unheard of was delivered at the Hennepin County Courthouse on April 20th: accountability. The conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on three separate charges for the...
Apr 13, 2021 | Advocacy, Beloved Community, Campaigns, Demilitarization, General, Human Rights, News, Nonviolence, North America, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Since 1915, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has stood as a community of believers from all faiths and traditions in opposition to war and violence in all of its manifestations. FOR-USA was established as a branch of an emerging global movement that would soon become...
