CCDA Global Connections presents: Who is My Neighbor, a six-part blog series recounting stories and impacts from a trip to Central America, written from a CCDA perspective. Part III: El Salvador, Scratching the Surface of a Nation By Kit Danley and Kristen Chesmore To begin to understand the [...]Read More
Who is My Neighbor Part II: Honduras
CCDA Global Connections presents: Who is My Neighbor, a six-part blog series recounting stories and impacts from a trip to Central America, written from a CCDA perspective. Part II: Honduras, Scratching the Surface of a Nation by Dawnielle Miller & Elnie Goodman Living in the DC Metro area, many [...]Read More
Who is My Neighbor, a Central American Journey
CCDA Global Connections presents: Who is My Neighbor, a six-part blog series recounting stories and impacts from a trip to Central America, written from a CCDA perspective. Part I: Journey Beyond the Border Wall by Sami DiPasquale “El Paso? El Paso... Ah yes, I came through El Paso about 20 years [...]Read More
Responding Locally to the Border Crisis
With the current crisis happening at the border, we as Christians often sit in the tension between being heartbroken by the news and images we see circulating in the media and feeling powerless in knowing what to do about it. We, at CCDA, have been moved by the courage of our members to speak out [...]Read More
Families Belong Together
As Christ followers, we remind our President and our government that every human being is created in the image of God, and merits being treated with dignity. We are committed to following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth regarding our treatment of all human beings, especially the vulnerable [...]Read More
Planting Seeds of Hope
A reflection on the intersection of gardening & activism I’ve been thinking about seeds a lot lately. It’s Spring, and I’m a gardener. Years ago I moved to a house with a small patch of dirt – about three square feet. One day as I was at my local Walgreens I saw seed packets marked 10 for $1. [...]Read More
Unlocked: An Open Mic Night for LIS 2018
150 people gathered for “Unlocked: An Open Mic Night” at Rosebud Coffee in Pasadena, California to celebrate and amplify the voices, performances, and visual art pieces of communities impacted by mass incarceration. The night included 20 artists who debuted their art publicly, some for the [...]Read More
“Is it just too much to rise up and fight against injustice?”
As part of Shaw University’s Religious Emphasis Week, over two hundred undergraduates gathered for a forum on the calling to moral leadership and social justice on Tuesday, February 7, at 11 am. Framed in the context of the Locked in Solidarity focus on ending mass incarceration, Dr. Mikael [...]Read More