July 2018

July 26, 2018

Just Transition: A Pathway to Environmental Justice

Posted 4:15pm

By Jamila Cervantes, Emerson National Hunger Fellow with the Office of Public Witness In response to a question on energy policy during a Democratic town hall in Ohio in 2016, then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Though this response was… Read more »

July 16, 2018

Our Faith, Our Vote: Resources for Presbyterians to Engage with the 2018 Midterm Elections

Posted 12:51pm

In line with a legacy of affirming the right for all citizens to participate in the democratic process, the 223rd General Assembly passed an overture calling on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to oppose, “any efforts to restrict participation in elections, including, but not limited to, voter suppression initiatives and racially based and/or partisan gerrymandering.” The… Read more »

July 6, 2018

A Checklist for a SCOTUS Nominee who Upholds the values of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly

Posted 1:43pm

“1Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, 2 to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!” Isaiah 10:1-2 NRSV As President Trump puts together a list… Read more »

Monthly Archives: July 2018