Human Rights & Faith Insights
Yes, You Can Be Pro-Woman and Pro-Child. Rise Above the Divide with Us.
America’s divisive politics have sold our nation far short. We’ve been told for too long that we must choose a side—women’s dignity and bodily integrity or the value of nascent human life. In truth, Jesus sees and cares for both. So should we. The draft Supreme Court...
2021 Annual Report: Letter from the Board Chair & Executive Director
Dear Fellow Advocate, Last year brought a number of breakthroughs and new beginnings in Justice Revival’s quest to expand and deepen Christian commitment to human rights in the United States, even as we lamented modest legislative progress at home and grave new...
Anti-Death Penalty Experts Address Over 250 People of Faith as Four Executions Loom
Sr. Helen Prejean and Shane Claiborne will discuss how capital punishment violates Christian values and prisoners’ human rights FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Mary Grace Donohoe mdonohoe@justicerevival.org 718-207-0970 April 20, 2022 | Virtual - Over 250...
Making the Case for Equality in the Senate: The Work Continues
#Faith4ERA Advocacy Over the past two weeks, Justice Revival and #Faith4ERA campaign partners held a series of advocacy meetings in support of legislation (S.J. Res. 1) to eliminate the arbitrary timeline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, in the first...
Highlights from the Event “Truth and Transformation: Uprooting Racism and Reimagining Policing in the United States”
The one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer came and went without the passage of meaningful federal legislation. The harm done to George Floyd and his loved ones cannot be undone. Unfortunately, the best one could hope...
Highlights from our Voting Rights event: The Right on which All Others Rest
At the voting rights event Justice Revival hosted recently, Rev. Alvin Herring of Faith in Action shared a personal account of how America’s history of racist voter suppression has affected him and his family. He described how his father, born in Alabama in 1922, did...
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...