Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA) In a 2017 Kenyon Review interview, the Indigenous poet Joy Harjo said “Listening is the essential skill necessary for any knowledge and science or art. We go back to the kitchen table. Along with listening is acknowledging what you’re hearing and following through with the knowledge or instructions or insights … READ MORE…
From St. Paul’s Sacred Ground in Action Ministry (SGIA): After so many cultural (among myriad other) assaults, t’s hard to imagine that even more harm can be done to Indigenous lands and communities. With the crafty confiscation of land for the purpose of copper extraction and subsequent destruction of sacred land, the Rio Tinto and … READ MORE…
Simpler Living & Sacred Ground in Action (SGIA) Once again our National City neighbors and the Environmental Health Coalition find it necessary to prevent yet another proposed fuel transfer station adjacent to their residential neighborhood. West National City experiences more cancer and cardiopulmonary-causing diesel pollution than 90% of other California communities. Not only would the … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA) Ministry: As followers of our brother Jesus we are called to welcome our neighbors [in this global village we are all neighbors] yet we are faced with what has become the difficult task of providing necessary humanitarian services. The Episcopal Church offers this tool kit for individuals and congregations: episcopalmigrationministries.org. … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA) Ministry: Farmworkers play an essential role in our life sustaining food systems. You can advocate for their health and dignity, as well as a path to legal status for long-term farmworkers by supporting the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2025, reintroduced by Reps Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA). … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA) Ministry: In so many ways the current federal Budget Reconciliation Bill includes many provision that will harm our communities. Our friends at the Washington National Cathedral call on concerned Episcopalians to contact our senators to vote NO on this ill-intentioned bill, particularly as it impacts migrants and others that it … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Ministry: Juneteenth (June + 19) is a commemoration of the day that the enslaved in Texas first learned of their freedom after the Civil War. Although the announcement delivered by the US military was delayed for two and a half years following Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, this day has become a second … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Ministry: While workplaces and homes of migrants are raided and people detained, sometimes with ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies defying the law without authorization, many people in Los Angeles, San Diego, and throughout the country are exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly. Please take action to support our … READ MORE…
From St. Paul’s Sacred Ground in Action (SGIA) & Simpler Living ministries: With the US Supreme Court’s refusal to hear an appeal from the Apache Stronghold to halt the massive Resolution Copper mine project on Oak Flat sacred Apache land, yet another treaty has been broken in the name of greed and in disregard of … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground in Action (SGIA) Ministry: In May we celebrate Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders and their contributions to US now and over the centuries. It is nationally recognized this month because the first Japanese immigrant came to the United States in May 1843, and the first transcontinental railroad was completed in May … READ MORE…