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  • Omar Khadr, The Kings University, and Micah 6:8

    Editor's introduction: Omar Khadr, an Afghan-Canadian, is accused of having thrown the grenade that killed American Sergeant Christopher Speer in 2002 when Khadr was 15. He was incarcerated at...
    July 21, 2017
  • Righting a Wrong in My Neighborhood

    On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the civil war, took effect. The news eventually reached Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865. The...
    July 14, 2017
  • Continue Welcoming Refugees with a Faithful Budget

    Welcome to our Speaking Up for a Faithful Budget series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox and to view previous posts in the series. Next week we’ll be hearing about...
    June 9, 2017
  • Fight Climate Change With a Faithful Budget

    Welcome to our Speaking Up for a Faithful Budget series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. Next week we’ll be hearing about refugee resettlement. For most of us in...
    June 7, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: Mobilizing Community as Advocacy

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox or see previous posts in the series. When New Hope was forming as a church plant, we spent our...
    May 18, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: Empowering to be a Voice for Change

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. From April 21-24, Freshta was part of a group of people from three different Christian...
    May 7, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: A Poem about Advocacy

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. From April 21-24, Hamza was part of a group of people from three different Christian Reformed...
    May 4, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: Advocacy as a Spiritual Practice

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. In my job as an advocacy and policy analyst in Latin America, I work to build bridges and...
    April 30, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: Breaking the Chains

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. Have you ever thought of advocacy as an act of worship or a step of discipleship? I hadn't...
    April 24, 2017