Scholarship Sunday 2016

July 14, 2016

June 12, 2016 was Scholarship Sunday

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Churches for Middle East Peace marks 40th anniversary: Words and deeds prevail at advocacy summit April 23, 2024
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), a coalition of more than 30 national churches and organizations, including the United Church of Christ, marked a milestone in its collective pursuit of peace, celebrating its 40th anniversary at the annual Advocacy Summit… The post Churches for Middle East Peace marks 40th anniversary: Words and deeds prevail at […]
UCC Stewardship materials now available April 23, 2024
The new United Church of Christ stewardship materials are now available from UCC Resources to help congregations tell their story while making a request for financial support. The theme for 2024 is “Imagine Together.” This package of materials helps people… The post UCC Stewardship materials now available appeared first on United Church of Christ.
April 28 is Break the Silence Sunday: Congregations join in supporting survivors of sexual assault April 23, 2024
This news piece features discussion of sexual assault. When the Rev. Moira Finley set up the Break the Silence Sunday exhibit at last summer’s 34th General Synod, the pastor wasn’t expecting what was to come: an outpouring of stories from… The post April 28 is Break the Silence Sunday: Congregations join in supporting survivors of […]

God Is My Helper April 25, 2024
My friend Raleigh is sprinting toward his eighty-fifth birthday! Since my first conversation with him more than thirty-five years ago, he’s been a source of inspiration. When he recently mentioned that since retiring, he’d completed a book manuscript and started another ministry initiative—I was intrigued but not surprised. At eighty-five, Caleb in the Bible […]
United Diversity in Christ April 24, 2024
In his essay “Service and the Spectrum,” Professor Daniel Bowman Jr. writes of the difficulty of navigating decisions about how to serve his church as an autistic person. He explains, “Autistic people have to forge a new path forward every single time, a unique path that takes into account . . . mental, emotional, and […]
Jesus—The True Peacemaker April 23, 2024
On December 30, 1862, the US Civil War raged. Union and Confederate troops camped seven hundred yards apart on opposing sides of Tennessee’s Stones River. As they warmed themselves around campfires, Union soldiers picked up their fiddles and harmonicas and began playing “Yankee Doodle.” In reply, the Confederate soldiers offered “Dixie.” Remarkably, both sides joined […]

World Central Kitchen workers killed in Israeli strikes will be honored at memorial April 25, 2024
The aid workers were killed April 1 when a succession of Israeli armed drones ripped through vehicles in their convoy as they left one of World Central Kitchen's warehouses on a food delivery mission.
Pro-Palestinian protests spread to the campuses of USC and the University of Texas April 25, 2024
Arrests were made at both schools. The LAPD said it would continue patrolling USC's campus into Thursday, while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the protestors at UT-Austin belong in jail.
Chicago's 'rat hole' is removed after the city determined the sidewalk was damaged April 25, 2024
The imprint of an animal had been a quirk of a residential block in Chicago's North Side for years but a post on social media brought it new fame, which neighbors found to be a nuisance.