Allies Needed for Asian Americans Targeted for Violence

ELCA Global Mission describes accompaniment as “walking together in a solidarity that practices interdependence and mutuality.” Filipinos, who were under Spanish rule for 300 years, call this concept pakikisama, “to…

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Pentecost Peacemaking

As the Church year moves from Easter into Pentecost, this Sunday we will remember again the story in Acts 2 of the Holy Spirit moving over the apostles in Jerusalem,…

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Armistice Day at 100: November 11, 1918-2018

World War I was called the “war to end all wars” when Armistice Day was first proclaimed on November 11, 1918. The U. S. Congress created Armistice Day to commemorate…

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The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

A hopeful development happening right now is the Poor People’s Campaign, co-launched on May 14, 2018 by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. William J. Barber II, the architect of…

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St Martin of Tours – Feast Day

St Martin of Tours is known as the first conscientious objector and a great peacemaker in the Christian church. His feast day of 11 November (or the nearest Sunday) which…

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Women’s Equality Day – August 26, 2016

August 26 is “Women’s Equality Day,” commemorating the 1920 passage of the U.S. Constitution’s 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Now in our church we have an opportunity…

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