California ballots are already in mailboxes, and the most powerful thing you can do this week is fill yours out and send it back. When the federal government is pushing the limits of its power over how Americans vote, casting a ballot is the one form of power that belongs equally to every one of us.
Vote for the common good. Vote with love. And let the world see what faith looks like in action.
What Every Christian Leader Should Know About Christian Nationalism
ICE, CBP, and other agencies are planning to do sweeps of CHURCHES over the holidays.
We pass on this observation from Diana Butler Bass with a plea for you all, as you are able, to join a “No Kings” action in your area this weekend. The more clergy and laity who show up for justice, the better. We are spiraling into a vicious autocracy, and our presence does help modify the extremism.
You are invited to participate in the upcoming Interfaith Nonviolent Civil Resistance 101 Training, a national gathering designed for faith leaders seeking to confront authoritarianism and defend democracy through the power of nonviolence.
We seriously do not want medicine reduced to “thoughts and prayers”, so please plan in advance to see what is still offered, what is not, and how to cope.
This ruling is not simply a matter of policy; it grants license for racial profiling. It sanctifies discrimination. It weaponizes our God-given Imago Deias a tool for exclusion and erasure.
The terms and conditions for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program now require recipients and subrecipients of the funding, among other things:
to cooperate with immigration officials,
not engage in or promote programs that engage in DEI, DEIA, or ‘discriminatory equity ideology’ within the meaning of the Executive Order, in violation of anti-discrimination laws, and
not participate in discriminatory prohibited boycotts relating to Israel.
“As Christians, we were made for this moment. We are not powerless. We can protect this world from the Pharaohs of our time,” she said. “This is our moment to reclaim faith, not as a weapon, but as a moral vision. Not to dominate, but to dignify. So, I ask you: do you know the power that you carry?”