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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
One in three women will experience sexual violence in her lifetime. There are ways we can work to interrupt and stop the violence.
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Healthy Masculinity: Working to end sexual assault
Women consider sexual assault daily. An average woman participates in approximately 189 thoughts or actions to prevent sexual assault each day. Changing this requires us to redesign the gender boxes into which we place men and women.
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Meeting the other: Can we talk?
The Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center in North Carolina will host an interfaith peace conference March 1-4, 2018.
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Settlements: A stumbling block to peace.
The mayors of Bethlehem and Wadi Foquin in the West Bank visited Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. last week. They spoke at a congressional briefing and met with members of Congress.
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Twenty spaces left for Young Clergy Leadership Forum in January
The forum focuses on putting our faith into practice by engaging the world through social action. More than 700 young clergy have participated in the yearly forum over the previous 15 years.
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Responding in love: Conversations around the dinner table
Anxieties can run high at holidays like Thanksgiving. When engaging in political debate this holiday season, it's important to respond from a place of love, not from a desire to win.
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World Diabetes Day
People without health insurance live lives that are shorter and less healthy because it’s harder for them to get preventive, diagnostic and ongoing care. As we honor World Diabetes Day, make sure you and everyone you know has health insurance.
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Pools of vulnerability: Stopping human trafficking
Human Traffickers "fish in pools of vulnerability." We, as Christians, bare a responsibility to love, nurture and protect the vulnerable.
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World AIDS Day: A time of remembrance and action
World AIDS Day is Dec. 1. The United Methodist Global AIDS Committee encourages you to commemorate the day. They have also created several resources for you to use.
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International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
“…persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed…”
