Human Rights & Faith Insights
Highlights from Full Inclusion, True Equality, Greater Justice, an Event on the ERA in Celebration of International Women’s Day
For many Americans, the conversation around women’s equality often focuses on historical efforts and achievements. Many Americans to this day, however, do not realize that the United States Constitution fails to fully include equal rights and protections for women,...
Let’s Be Honest, America: Human Rights Are Still On the Line
Let’s Be Honest, America: Human Rights Are Still On the Line For the last four years the United States has suffered a presidential administration truly extraordinary in its disregard for civil and human rights. As this wearying year draws to a close and Human Rights...
Revisiting the Bible with a Fresh Lens of Liberation
A Review of Who Stole My Bible: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny by the Rev. Jennifer Butler For those of us who grew up in mostly white Christian churches in the United States—part of a privileged, dominant racial and religious majority, in a...
The Time is Now for White Christians to Abolish Racism
While protesters spilled onto the Seattle streets in a dramatic display of anger, frustration, and grief in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, a group of Christians on Bainbridge Island, Washington came together to express similar emotions. We lamented the...
Refusing to Accept the Unacceptable
COVID-19 and the Urgent Necessity of the Human Right to Housing A Crisis on Top of a Crisis As the coronavirus pandemic persists, so too does the increasing cultural awareness of myriad inequities in American life. The pandemic did not create these interrelated...
Justice Revival & Union Theological Seminary Stand with Coalition Pressing Case for Equal Rights
Last Wednesday, Justice Revival and Union Theological Seminary in New York City joined a diverse coalition of over fifty civil society groups that signed a “friend of the court” brief in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Winston & Strawn, LLP filed the amicus...
Prosecuting Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
Prosecuting Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers And Facing Down Legal Threats to Black Lives Last Wednesday, a grand jury indicted the three Georgia men who harassed, chased down, and killed Ahmaud Arbery in broad daylight. Each of the defendants was indicted on nine counts, the...
I Am My Brother’s Keeper: A Juneteenth Message
The Brother of George Floyd Offers Historic Testimony before Global Human Rights Body On Wednesday, three weeks after the killing of George Floyd, his brother riveted the United Nations Human Rights Council with resounding testimony about the grief and anger the...
George Floyd’s Right to Life & America’s Crisis of Racialized Police Violence
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police—the cruel, unjustified killing of yet another Black man by White officers charged to protect and serve—is a mournful window into America’s shameful human rights crisis. If the inherent right to life venerated in...