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Get out there …
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‘I watched a man die.’
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Voting in elections is how we voice our values and shoe genuine respect for others
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New research is underway on the history of the land where we settled
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“When you think about the ‘homeless’ or ‘unhoused,’ what comes to your mind?”
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Edna Ruth Byler of the Mennonite Central Committee started working on Fair Trade in 1946 after visiting a women’s sewing circle in Puerto Rico. Although living in poverty, the women of the village created beautiful lace – which she brought back to the US to sell and return the money to the women of that…
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‘Our perspectives have been shifted a little …’
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Educate yourselves against racism
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Humility calls us to embrace the entire human community without exception. Everyone deserves to be loved and respected. We are all siblings one to the other.
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While no one of us is completely responsible for the climate catastrophe we are facing, each of us has a responsibility to do our part
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Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we called to love one another always, no matter what.
Sister Barbara Battista is a native of Indianapolis who currently ministers as the Congregation's Justice Promoter. She credits her social justice activism to her mother Alice's strong example. Raised in a large and extended Italian family household, Sister Barbara comes by community organizing quite naturally. She is a passionate and energetic advocate for full equity and equality for women and girls in church and society.
To learn more about Sister Barbara, view her sister profile page.