Congressman Escorted Off House Floor for Quoting Scripture in Hoodie
Standing in solidarity with thousands of young people from around the country, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) donned a hoodie on the House floor today in honor of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and...
View ArticleFaith Leaders Denounce Right-Wing Organization Behind “Kill at Will” Laws
Demonstrators, activists and community leaders gathered yesterday in Washington, DC outside the offices of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) a secretive group of right-wing lobbyists...
View ArticleDiverse pastors speak out on Trayvon Martin
Two nationally prominent pastors — Joel Hunter of Northland Church in the Orlando area, and NAACP Vice President of Stakeholder Affairs Rev. Nelson Rivers III — have an op-ed in today’s Orlando...
View ArticleConnecticut Legislature Votes to Repeal Death Penalty
Great news from the Nutmeg State: After more than nine hours of debate, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to repeal the state’s death penalty, following a similar vote in the...
View ArticleCatholic Archbishop Speaks Out Against Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law
As the Supreme Court weighs the Department of Justice’s case against Arizona’s discriminatory anti-immigrant law SB 1070, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez has an op-ed in The Washington Post...
View ArticleJimmy Carter: Follow Christ’s Teaching, End The Death Penalty
As state level bans of the death penalty gain steam across the United States, an old advocate has re-emerged as a prominent voice against capital punishment: Jimmy Carter. Last Friday, the former...
View ArticleOhio Faith Leaders to State Legislature: Protect Fair Election Laws
On Tuesday, the Ohio House of Representatives voted to repeal controversial voting restriction laws that were “supposed to go before voters on Nov. 6 -- the first known case in Ohio history in which...
View ArticleWho’s Speaking at Rep. Peter King’s Hearings on Hearings Today?
Today, Rep. Peter King is holding yet another round of his infamous hearings on “Muslim radicalization,” this time on the American Muslim response to his earlier hearings. The problem, as usual, is...
View ArticleInterfaith Worker Justice Joins Hyatt Hotel Boycott
Last week, Interfaith Worker Justice and other religious leaders joined the AFL-CIO, the NFL Players Association, the National Organization of Women and both union and non-union Hyatt Hotel workers to...
View ArticleFollowing Sikh Temple Tragedy, FPL Joins Groups in Statement of Tolerance and...
This week Faith and Public Life joined 177 other organizations, including faith groups, in releasing a statement that calls upon leaders and everyday Americans to “address xenophobia, racism, and...
View ArticleNational Council of Churches “Disturbed” by Trayvon Martin Tragedy
Adding to the growing number of faith leaders expressing outrage at the killing of Trayvon Martin, the leaders of the National Council of Churches have said they are “profoundly disturbed” by the...
View ArticleMiscarriage of justice in Florida
It’s outrageous and heartbreaking that George Zimmerman was not held accountable for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin at point-blank range. This injustice affected Americans so deeply because it...
View ArticleConfronting injustice in North Carolina
Several of my colleagues at Faith in Public Life made a pilgrimage to this week’s Moral Monday demonstration at the North Carolina state capitol, where they found a moving display of the faith...
View ArticleThey’re telling it on the mountaintop
Since the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act earlier this summer, several states have moved to enact onerous new voting restrictions. Nowhere was the resulting...
View ArticleA March to remember
Church bells rang out across the country yesterday as thousands of Americans gathered in Washington to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Speakers at the Lincoln Memorial pointed out...
View ArticleMourning Mandela
Many faith leaders of my generation were inspired to dedicate ourselves to seeking social justice because of Nelson Mandela. The struggle he led for equality in South Africa not only ended a brutally...
View ArticleAttacks on Moral March miss their mark
This op-ed by Faith in Public Life CEO Jennifer Butler originally appeared at NC Policy Watch’s blog, The Progressive Pulse. The recent criticisms leveled by newspaper columnist J. Peder Zane and...
View ArticleMore than a march
Saturday’s Moral March to the North Carolina state capitol was a watershed moment in the faith community’s long movement to build a more perfect union in the face of injustice. More than 80,000 people...
View ArticleMass mobilizing against mass incarceration
In a nation that keeps 2.2 million people behind bars — the majority for nonviolent drug offenses — the moral urgency of criminal justice reform is crystal clear. And even though the scale of the...
View ArticleAfter Ferguson
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The tear gas has cleared from the streets of Ferguson, the National Guard has withdrawn, and...
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