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February Is Black History Month – Make Some Noise
Change for justice, diversity, and inclusion has always required people of faith to make “noise,” as the late congressman John Lewis would say, “get into good trouble.”
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faith in action
Introducing a New Bible Study Resource on Immigration Justice
The new teaching tool from Church and Society entitled “Called to Journey, Called to Welcome: A Biblical Perspective on Immigration”.
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faith in action
Registration for Certified Advocate Development Program Now Open
The Certified Advocate Development Program equips United Methodists to engage in faith-based legislative and policy advocacy in the public square.
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Certified Advocate Development Program
The Certified Advocate Development Program equips United Methodists to conduct faith-based legislative and policy advocacy in the public square.
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Pages for Progress
Pages for Progress, a program of Church and Society, was established to create spaces for collective learning through shared reading and in-depth exploration of topics from a theological perspective, to become more effective advocates as people of faith.
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faith in action
“If The Foundations Are Destroyed What Can The Righteous Do?" Psalm11:3-4
We are now eight months into a new presidential administration along with a new 119th congress that both have drastically changed the national and global geo-political landscape.
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TAKE ACTION: IRS Declares Churches Can Endorse Political Candidates Without Tax-exempt Status Penalty
In a July 7, 2025 court filing, The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) declared that Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates in certain circumstances without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, despite a decades-old Congressional statute that bans political candidate endorsements.
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faith in action
Meet the 2026 Church & Society Interns
Church and Society interns learn how the agency carries out the mandate of the Social Principles and the Book of Resolutions through education and advocacy in the worldwide United Methodist Church.
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faith in action
Collabowriting: Toward a Glocal Grammar of Solidarity
Every new word begins as an attempt to name a reality not yet fully understood. In this seventh edition of The Present Tense, Liberato Bautista and Onesimus Emmanuel explore collabowriting, a practice emerging from Bautista's long reflection on glocal organizing and advocacy. Through a summer mentor-mentee exchange, they demonstrate how local experience and global responsibility converge in a grammar of solidarity. Their collaboration did not originate the concept; it revealed its enduring power as a practice of joint attention, shared inquiry, and public witness.
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faith in action
Celebrating Black History Month: Courageous Love In The Public Square
Rev. Dr. Liberato (Levi) Bautista, Church and Society's Assistant General Secretary for United Nations and International Affairs, offers his reflection on 2026 Black History Month and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr 's Holiday.
