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EYA Experiences: Shannon Mendez Silva
Shannon Mendez Silva interned at RESULTS as part of Church and Society's Ethnic Young Adult internship program. She reflects on lessons she learned while serving as an intern and what motivated her during that time.
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EYA Experiences: Mariam Zaki
Mariam Zaki interned with the National Disability Rights Network as part of Church and Society's Ethnic Young Adult internship program. She reflects on a trip the EYA interns made to New York City during the summer.
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EYA Experiences: Kelly Dunlap
Kelly Dunlap served as the Ethnic Young Adult Chaplain and seminar assistant. She reflects on an experience from earlier this summer which allowed her to mentor and learn from a group young adults which paid a visit to Church and Society.
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God weeps at Congress’s inaction
Dozens of people died last weekend in shootings across the country. Many lives might have been saved if the U.S. Senate passed universal background checks legislation.
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Reflection: A commitment to migrants
Ana Maria Rodriguez-Alfonso joins us as a general summer intern from the Boston University School of Theology with experience in public and constitutional law, human rights, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, and public services. In this piece, she reflects on what drove her to serve with Church and Society.
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Church and Society at UN's High-level Political Forum: “Education to End Inequality and Promote Peace”
Church and Society recently co-sponsored a high-level program on the United Nations' goal of quality education for all. The goal is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals currently being pursued by the UN.
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Taking action to end child detention
Jessica Frazier-Emerson is serving as a General Summer Intern with Church and Society. Here she reflects on a series of advocacy events she attended during her time with us this summer.
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EYA Experiences: Michael Hsu
Michael Hsu is interning at Democracy Initiative as part of Church and Society’s Ethnic Young Adult internship program. He reflects on a week spent in Washington D.C. earlier this summer.
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United Methodists deliver messages to Congress
United Methodists from 14 states sent Church and Society letters and drawing to hand deliver to members of the U.S. Congress. United Methodists from the Washington, D.C., area hand delivered those notes Thursday.
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Church and Society Ethnic Local Church Grant Supports Middle East Migrants
This is an interview with Rev. Dr. Zaki Labib Zaki, founder and president of the Middle Eastern United Methodist Caucus. The caucus received an Ethnic Local Church grant to support their work with migrants, especially focusing on survivors of trauma.
