by Allyson McKinney Timm | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Allyson McKinney Timm and Shane Claiborne Recent weeks brought temporary reprieve for Melissa Lucio when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed her execution–just 48 hours before the state was to put the 53-year-old Catholic grandmother and mother of 14 to...
by Charlie Palladino | May 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Apr 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Mar 22, 2018 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
My last blog post reflected on the pressing needs of America’s poor—needs underscored by the recent findings of Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. Who constitutes America’s poor? At least 40 million...
by Erin Grayson | Nov 9, 2017 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
Last year a Danish television ad challenging prejudice went viral. Its message was simple and timeless, but its portrayal of the human tendency to put people in boxes was powerful and timely. As immigrants fled life-threatening situations in other parts of the world,...
by Derick Dailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
Last week in St. Louis, where I live, worship, and work, crowds gathered to express their profound dismay and frustration at a justice system that is failing to live up to its bedrock value of equality. Last Thursday, a state judge acquitted Jason Stockley, a white...
