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Ferguson Clergy March cred Heather Wilson

Why the Journey of Reconciliation?

July 18, 2016 No Comments

In April 1947, Bayard Rustin and George Houser of FOR traveled with 14 other passengers—seven black, seven white—throughout North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia in order to challenge Jim Crow. The year before, the Supreme Court decided in a 7-1 decision in Morgan v. Virginia that drivers and police officers could not enforce state Jim Crow laws on people who had interstate

Love wins in the United Methodist Church!

July 17, 2016 No Comments

I am overjoyed to report the election this weekend of my dear friend Rev. Dr. Karen Oliveto to the episcopacy in the United Methodist Church! She was elected in an unanimous vote by the UMC’s Western Jurisdiction on Friday night, on the 17th ballot, in Scottsdale, Arizona. As she is the first openly-LGBTQI person to be elected bishop in our denomination (in which I am

Love wins in the United Methodist Church!

July 17, 2016 No Comments

I am overjoyed to report the election this weekend of my dear friend Rev. Dr. Karen Oliveto to the episcopacy in the United Methodist Church! She was elected in an unanimous vote by the UMC’s Western Jurisdiction on Friday night, on the 17th ballot, in Scottsdale, Arizona. As she is the first openly-LGBTQI person to be elected bishop in our denomination (in which I am

URGENT: Arrested in MN for Black Lives Matter

July 13, 2016 No Comments

This morning, a coalition of white people and non-Black people of color shut down the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives and in condemnation of the ongoing murders of Black people by police. In response to the murder of Philando Castile — the most recent victim of police killings in Minnesota — local allies of

URGENT: Arrested in MN for Black Lives Matter

July 13, 2016 No Comments

This morning, a coalition of white people and non-Black people of color shut down the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives and in condemnation of the ongoing murders of Black people by police. In response to the murder of Philando Castile — the most recent victim of police killings in Minnesota — local allies of

Non-Black Twin Cities residents shut down 35W bridge in support of movement for Black lives

July 12, 2016 No Comments

Minneapolis, MN – On Wednesday, July 13, a coalition of white people and non-Black people of color – the Coalition to Wake Your Ass Up – shut down the Interstate 35W bridge in solidarity with the movement for Black lives, condemning the ongoing killings of Black people by police in the Twin Cities and across the country. The coalition released the following statement: Last Wednesday evening, Philando