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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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faith in action
Shaping Peace Together: A Prayer for the International Day of Peace
A Prayer for the International Day of Peace delivered and written by the Rev. Liberato Bautista
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faith in action
Meet Alli Koehler, our Church and Society intern
Alli Koehler is interning with Church and Society this spring semester in Washington, D.C., via Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
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statement
How long, O Lord, how long
Statement from the Rev. Dr. Susan Henry-Crowe on the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday 2019
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faith in action
To be made new
Nica Sy is interning at Church World Service a part of Church and Society's Ethnic Young Adult internship program. She reflects on her first week in Washington, D.C.
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faith in action
Everybody’s got the right to live: Living wages and housing
The typical full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage — stuck at $7.25 per hour since 2009 — would have to work 122 hours each week of the year to afford a two-bedroom apartment or 99 hours each week for a one-bedroom apartment. That's neither possible nor moral.
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faith in action
Greetings on the project of liberation
Introducing Church and Society's new doctoral fellow in public health.
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faith in action
How to Be, Not Do, in Fascinating El Salvador
by Dorothy Wetzel (aka The Modern Day Church Lady)
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faith in action
SNAP benefits are on the line
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, helps to feed millions of low-income families. Congress is currently negotiating between two versions of the bill. The version passed by the House would reduce or eliminate food assistance for 2 million people. Please call your members of Congress now and ask them to support the bipartisan 2Senate version of the bill, which protects SNAP. 202.224.3121.
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faith in action
LGBTQIA Rights are Human Rights
God is present in the lives of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) people. Yet, LGBTQIA people are also among the most marginalized in society.
