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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

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

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#BeyondElectionDay: a time to break silence

November 7, 2016 No Comments

Today, the United States will elect a new president as well as hundreds of new or returning members of Congress and tens of thousands of local and state legislature representatives. My spouse and I both voted early last week here in North Carolina, recognizing the importance of each race on our “swing” state’s ballot. This is a time when our

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Standing with Standing Rock #NoDAPL

November 2, 2016 No Comments

Right now, FOR National Council member Sahar Alsahlani, former National Council member Rick Ufford-Chase, FOR executive assistant Juliette Suarez, and I are traveling to the Standing Rock Sioux nation in North Dakota to join more than 350 faith leaders from across the United States. Tomorrow we will participate in a collective nonviolent clergy action against the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL. Just last night, President Obama