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2014-08-29T09:56:20-06:00

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Vote Your Dreams, Not Your Fears: #MoralWeekofAction Concludes in Raleigh

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 9:56 am By Guest Contributor

On the 51st anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, the #MoralWeekofAction concluded yesterday with rallies and organizing meetings at 12 state capitals. Though local print and TV media covered many of these events, Sarah Bufkin of the NC NAACP captured the spirit of the one I attended in Raleigh, NC. The Forward Together Moral Movement is a foretaste of a 4th Great Awakening in America. Anyone interested in the future of public religion should pay attention to... Read more

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2014-08-26T10:01:26-06:00

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Sound the Shofar! Women Lead #MoralWeekofAction

Last updated on: August 26, 2014 at 10:01 am By Guest Contributor

In 14 state capitals across the US, faith and justice leaders are organizing a Moral Week of Action to conclude the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he exhorted the crowd to “go home” to Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to work for justice. As a faith-rooted organizing effort, the Moral Week of Action is grounded in prayer. RLC is sharing daily meditations from movement leaders. Catch up on meditations from previous days here: Day... Read more

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2014-08-26T08:18:41-06:00

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Give Us New Eyes

Last updated on: August 26, 2014 at 8:18 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

By Shane Claiborne It’s been said that our politics are often shaped by what we see out the window. Twenty years ago, if you’d asked me if I think police treat people fairly regardless of race, I would have said “Yes,” just like 70% of white folks in the recent Pew survey. In fact, 30 years ago, if you’d asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I’d have said “a policeman.” I grew up in a... Read more

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2014-08-25T11:58:04-06:00

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Don’t Let Anyone Look Down on Your Youth: #MoralWeekofAction Day 4

Last updated on: August 25, 2014 at 11:58 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

In 12 state capitals across the US, faith and justice leaders are organizing a Moral Week of Action to conclude the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he exhorted the crowd to “go home” to Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to work for justice. Read news coverage of yesterday’s action in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a faith-rooted organizing effort, the Moral Week of Action is grounded in prayer, sharing daily meditations from movement leaders. Catch... Read more

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2014-08-24T04:01:51-06:00

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Prayer for Day 3 of Moral Week of Action

Last updated on: August 24, 2014 at 4:01 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

This is the third daily meditation in a seven-part series of prayers for the Moral Week of Action coordinated by the Forward Together Moral Movement at 12 state capitols. If you missed them, here are links to the meditations for first two days: Day 1: Labor and Economic Justice, by Dr. Rodney Sadler Day 2: Education, by Rev. Nancy Petty You who hear the cries of all who suffer, listen to your people crying. A mother in Ferguson cries out for justice.... Read more

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2014-08-23T10:07:53-06:00

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Prayer for Moral Week of Action: Day 2, Education

Last updated on: August 23, 2014 at 10:07 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Since late spring of 2013, Rev. William J. Barber II and the HKonJ Coalition in North Carolina have led the Forward Together Moral Movement to expose extremists’ plans to re-make government in America from the state house up. Over 1,000 people have been arrested for civil disobedience over the past 16 months. Announcing a Moral Week of Action, the Forward Together Moral Movement spread to 11 other states yesterday. Read news coverage of yesterdays events from North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Ohio. For the... Read more

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2014-08-12T05:17:57-06:00

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Love Is the Final Fight

Last updated on: August 12, 2014 at 5:17 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

The first Tuesday in August is National Night Out in neighborhoods across urban America. Roadblocks stop traffic on one block or another as old men roll grills into the street and the young fellas gather for a pick-up game. Grandmas put their lawn chairs out on the sidewalk, and little girls skip rope double Dutch until they fall over on the ground laughing. I love these block parties. They’ve been a staple of summer life in Walltown since before we... Read more

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2014-08-05T13:49:40-06:00

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Julia Dinsmore: Singing Freedom’s Song

Last updated on: August 5, 2014 at 1:49 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

I led a workshop in Minnesota last week for the good folks at Collegeville Institute. (If you don’t know them, check em out here. They’re doing great work to support faith-rooted writing in the world.) A highlight of the week was getting to hang out with Julia Dinsmore, freedom singer, medicine story-teller, and great porch sitter of the North country. Grandma Julia, as she’s known to the Movement, reminds me of our Grandma Ann here in Durham–of Fannie Lou Hamer, Sojourner Truth,... Read more

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2014-07-27T06:41:15-06:00

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Our Children’s March: What 1963 Can Teach US About the “Border Crisis”

Last updated on: July 27, 2014 at 6:41 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

As images of kids at the US/Mexico border continue to feed the 24-hour news cycle, I’m reminded of Birmingham in May of 1963 and the pictures that gripped the nation that spring. What we’re calling the “border crisis” is today’s Children’s March in the struggle for immigrant justice. The real question is not how to “address the crisis” but rather what the faces of these children demand of us as a country? In the history of America’s Southern freedom struggle, the Birmingham campaign... Read more

2014-07-21T08:10:17-06:00

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Malaysia Flight 17: The Wreckage of Broken Promises

Last updated on: July 21, 2014 at 8:10 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

While the world mourns the devastating loss of nearly 300 lives and the shock of a commercial airline downed by military weapons over Ukraine, we cannot help by ask, “Why?” Not only why would Russian-backed forces in Ukraine shoot down a civilian plane, but why is Russia grasping for control of Ukraine in the first place? A generation after the so-called end of the cold war, why are Americans once again afraid of the Russians, demonizing its president as a... Read more

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