The King is Not Dead
This service intends to encourage hope and optimism for liberation and human dignity despite the fear of existential threats posed by fascism and an oppressive state
Topic: Social Justice
Radical Counterculturism
Being an effective force against injustice requires a strategic blend of systemic understanding, organized collective action, and sustained personal resilience. Justice literacy, mobilization, action, policy and legal reform, and institution building need all of our voices and gifts.
Orpah, Where Art Thou?
Preaching from the Book of Ruth, Ruth 1:1-18: Orpah simply vanished into the mountains. Who was Orpah, and what does her absence from the Book of Ruth—the quintessential story of inclusion in the Hebrew Bible—mean to you and me? This is a sermon that will explore the outcast, forgotten, and silenced people who were once … Continue reading Orpah, Where Art Thou?
Occupy Faith
The growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement has presented provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance movement to the Civil Rights movement, churches have played key roles in important social movements, and shows this role is no less critical today