by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jul 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last Independence Day, I co-authored an opinion in The Columbus Dispatch with Tarunjit Singh Butalia of Religions for Peace USA and Rev. Jack Sullivan Jr. of the Ohio Council of Churches calling on Ohio Sen. Rob Portman — a fellow person of faith — to support S.J....
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
As we continue to absorb the striking news of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, we are especially concerned–as I know many of you are–about how this abrupt and dramatic shift in the law will affect the lives, families, health, and...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jun 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
This Sunday, our nation commemorates Juneteenth, in honor of the redemptive day in 1865 when enslaved people across the state of Texas were finally liberated–two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Even after the Confederate...
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 Allyson McKinney Timm | May 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mary Grace Donohoe | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
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 –...