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 27, 2021 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Conscientious Objection, Interfaith, LGBTQ+, Peacebuilding, Social Justice
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Religious Community—Clergy, Theologians, and Lay Persons, We write to you at this very challenging moment in history, about the frightening health crisis facing Mumia Abu-Jamal, internationally renowned political prisoner and writer....
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 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...
