Today is election day in the United States. Millions of Americans have already cast their votes and have taken part in this consequential election. And millions more will be voting at polling places today, exercising this important right.At CCDA, we believe that civic engagement is important on [...]Read More
Reflections From the Southern Border
For one week in August, a group gathered at the Southern Border for an event hosted by CCDA's Immigration Network and Abara, a CCDA organizational member. During this immersive and educational experience, participants were invited to listen, learn, and reflect on what they can learn from the border, [...]Read More
An Encouragement Toward Prophetic Imagination
Be encouraged as Daniel Kim, co-founder of Rise University Preparatory, reflects on prophetic imagination in a local neighborhood in the Bayview Hunters-Point District of San Francisco. 80% of Rise's seats are reserved for 1st to college, low-income, or Bayview resident scholars. As of June 1st, [...]Read More
Redistribution in Education
Redistribution is one of the Eight Key Components of the CCD Philosophy. But what is Redistribution? And where do we begin? The following is from The Education Equity Church Partnership Guide, which was created by CCDA's #transformED Education Equity advocates. This helpful guide used our [...]Read More
The Realities of Restorative Justice
For the last several years, Healing Communities PA partnered with the Metropolitan Christian Council of Philadelphia on the Restorative Cities Initiative™️, a grassroots “porch front to city hall” model of bringing restorative practices to every part of community life, particularly in BIPOC [...]Read More
Restoring Community Belonging
Those Leaving Prison and Those In Churches Need Each Other To HealPrison reentry efforts can too often—unintentionally—keep men and women returning from prison isolated from the rest of their communities. With specialized reentry nonprofits, paid staff, transitional housing, and other important [...]Read More
Justice Through Healing
Equal Justice USA today is a much different organization than it was more than 20 years ago at our founding. Then we were focused sharply on ending the death penalty through state campaigns, and we’ve succeeded on that front. As important as those wins are, what we learned from those campaigns [...]Read More
¡Interesante!
by Rev. Joanne Solis-Walker, Ph.D¡Interesante! If I were asked to select one word to describe large portions of my journey as a Latina within theological education, it would be: Interesante or for the non-Spanish speaker, Interesting. I have had many rewarding opportunities as an administrator [...]Read More