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Posts By: Nora Leccese
November 28, 2017
All the Israelite men and women whose hearts made them willing to bring anything for the work that the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done, brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord. (Exodus 35:29 NRSV) The past year has been marked by grave threats to the marginalized and repeated need for powerful mobilizations of… Read more »
November 14, 2017
At the COP 23, we are faced with two striking facts: first, that women comprise 80% of all climate refugees, and second that this burden is not borne equally around the world. On average, one woman in the Global North consumes 400 times the resources of a woman on the continent of Africa, and is… Read more »
November 13, 2017
Evidence of indigenous solutions to climate change are all over the COP 23; there is enormous double-hulled Fijian sailing canoe in the sleek glass and steel great hall of conference center. The canoe, or drua, is made of wood and fiber—the informational sign is careful to tell us that the boat contains no metal components…. Read more »
November 10, 2017
“Let not your hearts be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me. That I go before you to prepare a place for you, that where I am, you may be also.” John 14:1 The shooting at First Baptist Church in Texas has left us all heartbroken. The victims range in age from 18 months… Read more »
November 9, 2017
Leaders in the U.S. House recently released a tax plan that would dramatically shape tax and spending policy for decades to come. This tax plan is moving extremely rapidly. The House is expected to vote the week of November 13 and the Senate is expected to vote on its tax plan after Thanksgiving. If passed,… Read more »
November 8, 2017
By OPW Domestic Policy Advocate, Nora Leccese I landed in Bonn as an official observer to the COP 23 on behalf of the PC(USA) on Monday, eager to participate and advocate on behalf of creation and all God’s people. This year, Fiji holds the Presidency of the 23rdConference of the Parties (COP) being held in… Read more »
November 3, 2017
November 1st, 2017 Dear Members of Congress, We write as faith based organizations and allies to ask the U.S. expedite responses to hurricane affected communities in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Cuba and the wider Caribbean. The 2017 hurricane season has dealt devastating blows to the Caribbean. Never in the history of… Read more »
October 23, 2017
By Ben Pistora The September defeat of the Graham-Cassidy Bill has not brought an end to the health care debate in Washington DC. Rather, in the weeks since the most recent attempt to overturn the Affordable Care Act, numerous executive actions and legislative efforts to crater the effectiveness of the ACA have kept Americans’ worried… Read more »
October 18, 2017
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. (1… Read more »
October 11, 2017
October 11, 2017 In the midst of a season of catastrophic hurricanes made stronger by the effects of climate change, the Trump administration has moved to repeal the federal rule that protects creation from the most devastating impacts of a warming planet. The Clean Power Plan is the rule in question and would have pushed… Read more »
