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View documentary film free of charge: The Ants & the Grasshopper

This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet. Free viewing through Spirit in the Desert Climate Theater.

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Faith-Based Organizing: A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty

This resource presents a faith-based effort to identify what sustains poverty and to organize people to work together to overcome its root causes. The result is collaborative relationships that change systems contributing to poverty. Within this process, new leadership will emerge, relationships will be enriched, and congregations will experience renewed love for people by undergoing transformation.

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Support the Bi-Partisan Equality Act

The ELCA social message on Human Rights affirms: In the name of the God who creates every human being out of love, this church teaches human dignity is God’s gift to every person and that the commitment to universal rights protects that dignity. 

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Accountable for racially-inspired human rights violations

The author write, “As I listened to the debate happening on the floor of the UNHRC in Geneva condemning institutionalized racism, I thought about the institutions of which I am part in the United States and the ways in which racism and anti-blackness permeate and fester in all areas of society, even within our houses of worship.”

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