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EPPN Lenten Series: Engaging Poverty Through Food Security
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.” Genesis 1:29 The barren landscape of winter with its naked tree limbs and hard, frozen ground is hardly evocative of fertility, […]
Immigration Advocacy Network Newsletter February- March 2015
Executive action programs are temporarily delayed; an agreement is reached to fund the Department of Homeland Security; the fate of unaccompanied children in the United States remains precarious and more, all in this month’s newsletter! Advocacy Calendar Administrative Update Congressional Update Unaccompanied Children Update Advocacy Calendar #ShareTheJourney Pilgrimage to the Great Lakes Region of Africa. […]
EPPN Lenten Series: Engaging Poverty at Home and Around the World
Into paradise may the angels lead you, At your coming, may the martyrs receive you And lead you to the holy city, the new and eternal Jerusalem. May the choirs of angels receive you and lead you to the bosom of Abraham, And with Lazarus, once poor, may you have life everlasting. On Ash Wednesday, […]
EPPN Lenten Series: Engaging Poverty Through Education
“The advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.” Ecclesiastes 7:12b (NRSV) Study after study in this country shows that poverty limits the chances of attaining a quality education, while at the same time we know that attaining a quality education is one of the prime mechanisms for escaping […]
EPPN Lenten Series: Engaging Poverty Through Housing
My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. Isaiah 32:18 (NRSV) “On a single night in January 2013, there were 610,042 people experiencing homelessness in the United States, including 215,344 people who were living in unsheltered locations.” On that particular night, nearly one quarter (23%) were children. […]
I Sing a Song of the Saints of God
Even with a couple months left, I feel comfortable proclaiming that, for me, this has been a year of transitions. I moved to an apartment in New York City from my family’s home in the woods outside Rochester, Minnesota. I traded a roomy four-door for a packed subway train. I left Sunday pizza dinners with […]
We are sitting on a treasure here
“We are sitting on a treasure here” were the departing words spoken to me by the Rev’d Joel Watson as I prepared to depart the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota a little over a week ago. (Joel, a retired priest, is the husband of the Rev’d Margaret Watson; Margaret is the priest in charge […]
Finding Dignity in Aberdeen
This past week, we read this passage in our Bible study in Aberdeen, a small post-industrial town on the coast of Washington state. We use a Base Christian Community model of Bible study—we read the passage and open up the conversation to the question: what does this passage have to do with us, here and […]
You'll be Voting Today
You’ll be voting today. In fact, you might vote many times today. And just like your vote for candidates in your local elections on November 4, these votes count. These votes are important. If you go out to shop today, you will be voting. Just like your vote in a political election, your one […]
Immigration Advocacy Newsletter Executive Action Edition
Immigration Advocacy Network Newsletter- Executive Action Edition President Obama announces executive actions that will defer deportation for nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants; the largest-ever family detention center opens in Texas; Congress passes a budget just in time; and Syrian resettlement picks up in United States, in the last newsletter of the year! Advocacy Calendar Executive […]
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