ecumenical advocacy days Archives

Save the date for Ecumenical Advocacy Days and its Presbyterian prelude

Posted January 26th, 2022

It’s not quite time to make reservations, but certainly time to save the date for Ecumenical Advocacy Days and CPJ Training Day 2022.

Faith gives wings to calls for environmental justice

Posted April 22nd, 2021

Keya Chatterjee was speaking to a crowd preparing to virtually walk into the halls of power and ask their legislators to do what many deem impossible: supporting legislation that takes decisive steps to stop climate change and address its impacts.

Day-by-day impact of climate change explored at Ecumenical Advocacy Days workshop

Posted April 22nd, 2021

Fabienne Jean of Haiti doesn’t need anyone to tell her that climate change is real. Her country and its people already are experiencing its effects.

Using your collective voice to influence Congress on climate issues

Posted April 20th, 2021

President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure, jobs and green energy plan served as a backdrop Monday for an Ecumenical Advocacy Days workshop led by Interfaith Power & Light (IPL), a partner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

‘If the Christian community stands up … we will see change’

Posted April 20th, 2021

Why should people of faith get involved in climate justice? “A lot of approaches to climate change have been secular, and they have failed in the Pacific,” said the Rev. James Bhagwan, General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), a group of more than 40 churches and Christian faith organizations across the Pacific Ocean. “And the question has always been asked why the climate projects there that are secular do not have the impact that people expect to have on paper?”

Kennedy, King and restoring God’s Creation

Posted April 19th, 2021

The Most Rev. Michael Curry was at a meeting of Anglican bishops from around the world at Canterbury Cathedral in England, and one of the daily themes of the meeting was “the environment.”

Harry Pickens to speak at Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Days

Posted March 30th, 2021

Though Harry Pickens is perhaps best known as a jazz pianist, he also has a passion for teaching people how to bring out the best in themselves during the toughest of times.

Registration now open for Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Days

Posted March 3rd, 2021

Registration is now open for CPJ Training Days, a virtual advocacy and organizing event April 7-9.

Mark your calendar now for Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Days 2021

Posted December 3rd, 2020

Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Day will be virtual again in 2021, and it will be plural.

Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Day goes online

Posted April 14th, 2020

While Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Day is on a long list of events lost to the COVID-19 virus, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness (OPW) is still offering a social justice event on April 24.