Earlier this month, the progressive Christian publication Sojourners, chose not to run an ad campaign encouraging churches to welcome and fully include LGBTQ people. The campaign included a video, depicting a lesbian couple and their son being met with both suspicion and welcome when they visit a new church, is part of the Believe Out Loud coalition’s Mothers Day campaign. http://www.believeoutloud.com
Attacks, jailings, and killings have been mounting in Honduras as state forces are cracking down on peaceful protesters. Canadian and Honduran officials need to be calling for peace and justice: find out how to respond on the UCC's Take Action page: www.united-church.ca/getinvolved/takeaction/110406
The 2011 election will have an enormous impact on our lives. Now more than ever, all faith voices need to be heard in the political process. To help you consider important issues and get involved in this process of decision-making, the United Church has created the 2011 Federal Election Kit.
But we also see it written that "The sins of the father shall be visited upon the sons". The questions then arises "How is it just that the sons should be punished for the misdeeds of their fathers?" The innocent newborn sons did not sin yet they are burdened with the suffering.
News news! JGER has unveiled its swanky new facebook page - United Action for Justice. I highly recommend checking it regularly for dialogue and news on international and justice subjects, all hot off the desks of the United Church.
Last evening I returned from a week-long visit with our partners in the Philippines, a nation of 7,100 islands—7,101 at low tide. United Nations Human Rights Day, December 10, is already dawning there.
I've heard that worldly scepticism many times when cynics are told about good works, about a growing spirit of hope and things getting better. And in today's doom and gloom times, near apocalyptic warnings are so common you can't keep track of them all.
This past Monday, I had my first day at UCC Head Office. I was offered a job in the JGER - Justice, Global and Ecumenical Relations - unit. My head is still spinning, but I know I can say something I've never said before: I love my job.
I was thrown into things straight off the starting block - conference calls, staff meetings, M&S awareness week, etc. I don't think I've had much time to process everything yet! But I have learned a handful of things. Here they are:
