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Something to Teach Us About Living Well

November 20, 2016 No Comments

As efforts to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline grow, communities across the country are hearing from activists on their return from North Dakota and sending off fresh teams to lend support. The author believes that part of the support for the Standing Rock protests is a dawning consciousness that Native people have something important to teach us about living well

Something to Teach Us About Living Well

November 20, 2016 No Comments

As efforts to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline grow, communities across the country are hearing from activists on their return from North Dakota and sending off fresh teams to lend support. The author believes that part of the support for the Standing Rock protests is a dawning consciousness that Native people have something important to teach us about living well

#NODAPL: Interfaith Appeal for Justice at Standing Rock

November 16, 2016 No Comments

“In the waning hours of his presidency, President Obama must recognize the sovereign status of the Sioux Nation and respect their wishes concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline. This is an opportunity for the United States to heal the harm suffered by indigenous persons of this land as a result of conquest and colonization. This is an opportunity to forge a

Where to Turn

November 13, 2016 No Comments

In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry into the U.S. “I know of no-one else to whom to turn for help,” he wrote. But the U.S. government

Where to Turn

November 13, 2016 No Comments

In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry into the U.S. “I know of no-one else to whom to turn for help,” he wrote. But the U.S. government

Respond to Fear with Compassion

November 8, 2016 No Comments

A post election statement from our Executive Director Rev. Kristin Stoneking: My guess is you’re as shocked as I am at the outcome of yesterday’s presidential election. The idea that a person who espoused racist, sexist, classist demagoguery has become the president of the United States was unthinkable. And yet, it has happened. The urgency of our work just got