Blog Archives: discrimination

  On April 4th we remember the tragic 51st anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. While Dr. King and other civil rights leaders largely succeeded in…

How often do you celebrate the women in your life, to show your appreciation and to strengthen them? Imagine doing this and boosting women’s equality too! March 8 is International…

Learn More.  Enact Legislation.  Raise Awareness. Bullying is a terrible pain-inflicting reality.  Schoolyard and teen bullying are major concerns.  Yet workplace bullying of adults, by their bosses or coworkers, is…

June 19, 2018 marked the 36th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin. Shining a light back on this terrible event is important — especially as many do not know…

A hopeful development happening right now is the Poor People’s Campaign, co-launched on May 14, 2018 by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. William J. Barber II, the architect of…

Asian Americans have often been called “the Model Minority,” reinforcing images of success that needs no support. But this label obscures the Asian American poor who live with the endless…

Here’s a statistic so shocking that it defies belief: 1 in every 3 women in the world will be raped or beaten in her lifetime, according to the One Billion…

Migrants and Refugees   Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother,…

August 26 is “Women’s Equality Day,” commemorating the 1920 passage of the U.S. Constitution’s 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Now in our church we have an opportunity…

Members of the ELCA-Lutheran World Federation delegation at the 59th UN Commission on the Status of Women, 2015, NYC. What does our church say about women and justice, to generate discussion…