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 25, 2021 | Advocacy, Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Human Rights, Interfaith, International, News, Nonviolence, Peacebuilding, Racial, Social Justice
This month marks the 73rd anniversary of the creation of Israel following the adoption of United Nations resolution 181 (1947). This political decision was made at UN Headquarters in New York, shunning and circumventing the human right of self-determination by the...
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 25, 2021 | Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, Human Rights, International, Nonviolence, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
by Rev. Michael Yoshii The following is adapted from Rev. Michael Yoshii’s Good Friday sermon at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. The event was organized by Ecumenical Peace Institute and Livermore Conversion Project with support from TriValleyCAREs and...
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...
