Human Rights & Faith Insights
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...
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...