By Matt Ness, Co-Pastor of One Church, Louisville, KY
photo credit: Helen Salley
Last week I went on a three-and-a-half-day journey through the south. We slept two nights on the bus. There were as many emotions as there were miles. …
Homework in the Garage
by Heather Chapman, co-founder of UNIDOS, San Juan Capistrano, CA
California’s 39% Latino population is rising, and in the Capistrano Villas it is about 95%. Yet in many ways, this community lives trapped behind a one-way glass. Many in this …
Intercultural Development
From the Midwinter 2018 Covenant Communicator
“40 years ago,” Pastor Anne Vining recalls, “waves of Hmong refugees arrived in the Twin Cities after being displaced from their homes in Laos during the Vietnam War. They escaped to resettlement camps in …
Rethinking Incarceration
by Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Director of LMDJ Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation
The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in world history. We have more jails and prisons than degree-granting institutions. Consequently, in many regions, more people live behind …
Cov Enterprises – Fleurish Industries
by Adam Gustine, LMDJ Director of Ministry Initiatives
Fleurish Industries is a social enterprise led by folks at Canal Street Church in New Orleans. Canal Street, along with their non-profit The Restoration Initiative, imagined a neighborhood where people experienced life …
Affordable Housing – City Covenant Church
by Adam Gustine; Director LMDJ Ministry Initiatives
Over the past two years, the ECC has developed a new approach to collaboration between local church, conference and Covenant Offices centered on affordable housing in low income communities. The pilot project was …
Sankofa: Go Back and Get It
by David Swanson, Pastor, New Community Covenant Church
Last weekend I participated in a Sankofa Journey, a three-day cross-racial bus ride through southern Civil Rights sites. Jon White and I did this same trip together six years ago and the …
Choosing Presence and Lament
by Abigail Heath, Sankofa Journey participant, Lafayette, IN
We pulled up alongside a beautiful, brick church, and I tried to imagine the scene of bloody chaos that played out there only a couple of decades ago. We walk inside and …
Center of Life: Remembrance and Hope
by Laura Garvey, Great Lake Conference. Featuring Pastor Tim Smith, Keystone Covenant Church, Pittsburgh, PA. Story reposted from the Great Lakes Conference newsletter.
Pastor Tim Smith lost track of how many boys and men he had eulogized and buried – …
But Do They Deserve It?
Why God’s Justice Cannot Thrive in a Meritocracy
by Adam Gustine, Director of LMDJ Ministry Initiatives
Perhaps you have noticed this pattern transpire whenever an incident of injustice gains national attention. Controversy gains steam nationally through news and social media …