Sacred Ground In Action Initiative After a recent protest outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center by about 100 clergy members, Bishop Mariann Budde was interviewed on MSNow30. True to her charism she emphasized the importance of speaking truth to power, reflecting on the importance of clergy to not only use words but also act … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Initiative On July 14, the Port of San Diego Board voted unanimously to honor our Kumeyaay neighbors by naming a previously unnamed beach in Spanish Landing: Kumeyaay Beach. Both the testimony from audience members – Kumeyaay and allies – and individual Board members was very moving, Tribal leaders endorsed the vote as … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Initiative From PICO California (Pacific Institute for Community Organizing) and SDOP (San Diego Organizing Project): The No Taxpayer Dollars for Family Separation Act: AB 2465 PASSED out of the State Senate Judiciary Committee and has been referred to the Appropriations Committee! This bill is a major step to end corporate state … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Initiative The Episcopal Migration Caucus calls on all Episcopalians to consider signing on to Dignity, Not Mass Detention: An urgent statement. It begins: Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured. (Heb. 13:3) … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Initiative Whether it’s called Freedom, Jubilee, Liberation, Emancipation, or Black Independence Day, Juneteenth commemorates the day – June 19, 1865 – when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned from US Major General Gordon Granger that they were free. The first Juneteenth was celebrated in 1866 in Texas with prayer, food, music, … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Initiative The First celebration known as Flag Day was held in Hartford, CT in 1861, another time of turmoil in our national history (as that was also the year the civil war broke out). On June 14 the Committee for the First Amendment will be hosting Rise Up, Sing Out: A … READ MORE…
Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry & Sacred Ground in Action Initiative Taking place each week from February 26 until March 26 from 6:30 – 8 pm, one of the virtual Lenten book study selections this year is Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by geologist and writer Lauret Savoy. From a Ploughshares review: “[Savoy] traces her Native, … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground in Action Initiative While some would have you believe that for February there’s not much to say beyond our “250 glorious years of American independence” (hint, the house is white) we surely know better! Black history is richly varied, filled with pain-filled sorrow and hope-filled joy; outwardly imposed denial of freedom and vibrant, … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground in Action Initiative “Faith, in this hour, is not a private comfort. It is a public commitment.” To bake a loaf of bread, several ingredients are needed. To stop the onslaught of ICE, here is one ingredient for change flavored by faith. “We grieve this moment. And we reject it.” To sign the Prophetic Declaration: … READ MORE…
From Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA): What was once a beacon of hope is seen by many across the world as a cynically obsolete promise. Many of us still believe in that promise of invitation to live in a country with freedom and justice for all, as merely aspirational as it seems and often has … READ MORE…