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Caring for our neighbors in COVID-19
Building beloved community in a moment of social distancing.
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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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Welcome our summer intern Jessica Frazier-Emerson
Jessica Frazier-Emerson is serving with us as a General Summer Intern from Hendrix College. We asked her a few questions at the start of her internship to share more about her background.
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Praying for Peace in Gaza and Israel
Church and Society's general secretary, the Rev. Dr. Susan Henry-Crowe, grieves for the dead and offers this prayer for peace after the Israeli military killed dozens and injured thousands of Palestinian protestors.
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The Summer of 1969
It is hard to describe the conditions of migrant workers and their families who worked in the fields picking tomatoes the summer of 1969.
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Seminar on immigration: A poetic response
At the end of many seminars at Church and Society, we do an artistic reflection of the group's experience. Here are some of the poems written by some recent seminar participants.
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Native American Reading and Literacy Demonstration Project at First UMC in Pembroke, NC
The Native American Reading and Literacy Demonstration Project at First United Methodist Church in Pembroke, North Carolina, will strengthen the efforts to improve the reading and literacy skills of Native American Indian children.
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What you can do right now to end child detention
Tell Congress and President Trump: End child detention and family separation.
![Two hand drawn letters to members of Congress. The first is a a child's hand drawn stick figure family with the words, "Keep families together! Abraham Carr."
The second is more complex, with a colorful rainbow circle with handwritten text on the inside. The text reads, "Thomas Merton said, 'We are already one, but we fear we are not.' I believe separating migrant families is motivated by fear. I would rather explore our oneness and live into it. Respectfully, [illegible signature], Norman, Oklahoma."](https://gbcs-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/image/277/small.jpg?1561578304)
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International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church 2019
This year’s annual International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church fell on November 3, right before our trip to El Salvador. I did not know it at the time, but this annual observance would thematically define for me the week that was to follow.
