Action Alerts

Action Alerts are actionable items that may change at any moment. We endeavor to share these with our readers and implore them to look deeper into these events and stories via our site, our Twitter account, and Facebook account.

Shannon Daley Harris

God’s Call Is to Seek Change, Not Comfort, to Keep Our Children Safe

  By Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris, Religious Affairs Director of The Children’s Defense Fund and member of PHEWA’s Presbyterian Child Advocacy Network (PCAN) Leadership Team   “God has called them all home.” My stomach lurched as the president concluded his words … Continue reading

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Where is the Prince of Peace?

Peace Discernment After Newtown By Chris Iosso   If young men are princes, then few seem to have the Prince of Peace as their model. Every now and then one of these young men commits actual murder, as has just … Continue reading

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Glimpses of Environmental Justice

Brief interviews on the relationship between environmental justice and issues like the Keystone XL Pipeline, a U.S. based smelter in Peru (a protest of which is pictured above), the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline, fracking, and destruction along the coast of Louisiana. By … Continue reading

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Shannan Vance-Ocampo

Hope Has Two Daughters: Anger & Courage

A Sermon on the Mass Killing in Newtown, CT Preached by Rev. Shannan R. Vance-Ocampo on December 16, 2012, on the third Sunday of Advent at Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church   Texts: Isaiah 12 & John 3: 7-20 Let us … Continue reading

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