The Social Justice and Witness team is exploring ways to enhance our Global Ministries work. The work of the Tasajera committee continues with scholarships for the youth of this small El Salvador island, and growing the relationships that were established years ago. In addition, the SJW committee
Read more →LEVO (Lift Every Voice Oregon), an interfaith group that seeks to reduce gun violence, continues its push to collect signatures to get a gun safety measure on the November ballot. Originally, the goal was to collect signatures for two initiatives, one to ban assault weapons and one to
Read more →Sponsored by Respond to Racism Monday, June 6 – 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. TheCentralPacificConferenceishighlightingthisofferingfromRespondtoRacism,anOregon non–profit organization. R espond to Racism’s June Community M eeting: N ative Children and the legacy of R esidential Schools in Oregon, is an online offering. One of these schools was located at P acific University, which
Read more →A commercial leaf blower emits as much smog-forming pollution in one hour as driving a 2016 Toyota Camry about 1,100 miles. Multiply this by hundreds of blowers in the course of a week, and we understand one small-but-large contribution to Eugene-Springfield’s rating among the worst for air
Read more →How to Get Straight A’s in Climate Citizenship (AAA) It’s too easy to think that there is little we can do as individuals to help alleviate our planet’s current climate concerns. But actually there is much we each can do to be part of the climate solution, and not just
Read more →You! Yes, You! Yes, you CAN! with Climate Action Now Much has been written about the very serious nature of the growing climate crisis here on Planet Earth. But perhaps not enough has yet been written to spur us to bold, clear and consistent advocacy on behalf of this place we call
Read more →Lift Every Voice Oregon (LEVO) Lift Every Voice Oregon is a coalition of faith-based groups that have organized to reduce gun violence in Oregon (CLICK HERE for the LEVO website to find out more about this organization). They have filed two state-wide initiative petitions for Oregon’s November 2022 ballot
Read more →Climate “Denial-ism” vs. “Doom-ism” vs. “Do-ism”… Okay, maybe that’s stretching the alliteration just a bit too far, but let us explain. *There are those who deny that climate change is real. We beg to differ. *There are those who acknowledge climate change, but who think that things are
Read more →Reflections on Earth Day, 2022 As we observe Earth Week this week, let us take a moment to reflect on the condition of our planet in Spring, 2022. As trees leaf out, flowers bloom and the sun comes out from behind the clouds, it would be easy to
Read more →“Kids might be a small percentage of the population, but we’re 100% of the future.” (Cash Daniels, age 12, Environmental Activist, Time Magazine’s “Kid of the Year”) Now there’s some youthful wisdom we can get behind! Kids like Cash Daniels, Greta Thunberg (the Swedish teen and prominent climate
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