As  Father Theodore Hesburgh said – “voting is a civic sacrament.” Here are some creative ways to help people excercise their right to vote.

We are a small Episcopal religious order with two houses, one in New York City and one in Brewster, NY. At Brewster we have established what we call Bluestone Farm—our beginning effort to reconnect with and celebrate the sacredness of Earth, to live in harmony with the land, to move more deeply into sustainable living, and to educate for the future, focusing on Earth literacy.

A child with a parent in prison has a 70 percent chance of going to prison too. Children with two parents in prison have odds of more than 90 percent against them.  What can we do to stop that destructive cycle?
 
Dioceses around the country are sending some of those children to camp for one week of healing, love, learning and fun.  Does it make a difference?

You think that everyone should be a member of the EPPN, but you just don’t know how to tell them? Here are a few easy ways to spread the word about the EPPN.

“I’ve never asked for help before,” said the woman who had come to Trinity Church  seeking assistance with her power bill after referral by a counselor.  She needed to pay something, anything, to keep the lights from being cut off.  She is a working class woman in a city that still is hemorrhaging at the seams. For many, daily existence here is a down-right bizarre mix of trying to live normally while knowing nothing is normal except for the dysfunction. 

...Jubilee Ministry – living out their mission statement to serve through "the talk of our faith and the walk of our faith”  – just took another huge step for the Church in its ongoing efforts to help workers attain a living wage...

Several weeks ago we sent out an alert to the EPPN with the same title. I just can't say it enough times. In fact, here in the office folks laugh because I am constantly reminding people that there are elections going on all the time all over the country . . .

Last night as I was channel surfing, an ad on VH-1 caught my attention. It was an ad for the Global Fund -- part of a new partnership between VH-1 and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and its ravaging affect worldwide.

My first thought was "Wow! How cool is that!" . . .

New Orleans has been my home away from home for only four and a half days and this is what I have seen with my own eyes and my perspective of the shared personal experiences of a few of the millions of people who were affected by last year’s Hurricane Katrina.  Nine months after the hurricane, there still is tremendous damage here—physical, structural, emotional and political; the damage is immense and it is spread far and wide.

In reflecting on the events of the day as I walked back to the office from the Capitol reception, I for the first time in a long while had a great sense of peace.  In the midst of the loss, there was much, for me, to be grateful.  While no doubt the cuts to those that live in the margins of our world are painful and wrong—and we should never forget that—I am mindful of how I was personally and professionally enriched by the opportunity to work with a community ...