Welcome to the revised, evolving Links section of thewitness.org. We
highlight faith-based web sites working on justice, peace, creation, and
other social activist issues, and we also offer links to some secular
progressive online communities. Please contact
editor@thewitness.org if you
have a web site you would like us to add to this section.
Criminal Justice
Daily Life
Environmental Justice
Globalization & the Economy
Health, Hunger & Housing
Human Sexuality
Indigenous Peoples
Religious Study and Interfaith & Ecumenical RelationsAnglican & Episcopalian Ecumenical Christian Interfaith Islamic Jewish Roman Catholic Scriptural Reflection and Church Commentary
Peace, Human Rights & Democracy
Progressive Media
Race & Ethnicity
Refugees & Immigration
Science & Technology
Women & Gender
Criminal Justice (death penalty, prisons & jails, restorative justice, political prisoners)
Death Penalty Focus
Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
The Project was created to galvanize and empower the religious community in the U.S. to work against capital punishment. Coordinated by the American Friends Service Committee's criminal justice program, the Project provides people of faith with the tools and resources they need to become effective advocates for abolition.
www.deathpenaltyreligious.org
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
(Formerly Handgun Control, Inc.): a non-partisan, not-for-profit U.S. organization that lobbies in favor of common-sense gun regulations at both the state and national level.
www.bradycampaign.org
Daily Life (spirituality on a day to day basis)
Food and Faith
The Presbyterian Church sponsors the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP), which addresses hunger and its underlying causes such as poverty through direct service, support for community economic development, education of fellow Presbyterians about the issues and related lifestyle connections, and by advocating for public policies that promote just social and economic systems.
www.pcusa.org/pcusa/wmd/hunger/food/index.htm
Workplace Spirituality
Expressing spirituality in the workplace through career calling, ethics, economic justice, spiritual practices, and spiritual values.
www.workplacespirituality.info
Environmental Justice (environmental stewardship, Creation, ecology, eco-justice, land)
EarthTalk Today
An environmental television show informing the public to make choices to restore and promote the health of the world.
www.earthtalktoday.tv
Episcopal Power & Light and The Regeneration Project
Affiliated with the Episcopal Church, this organization particularly works on climate change. Thanks to advances in energy efficiency technologies, the deregulation of the electric industry, and the development of renewable energy resources, religious people have an historic opportunity to put their faith into action and help reduce the threat of global warming.
www.theregenerationproject.org
Indigenous Environmental Network
An alliance of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, environmental protection of their lands, water, air, and maintaining the Sacred Fire of their traditions.
www.ienearth.org
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
NRPE is a formal alliance of major faith groups and denominations across the spectrum of Jewish and Christian communities and organizations in the United States. NRPE integrates care for God's creation throughout religious life: theology, worship, social teaching, education, congregational life, and public policy initiative. It seeks to provide inspiration, moral vision, and commitment to social justice for all efforts to protect the natural world and human well-being within
it.
www.nrpe.org
Network for Environmental and Economic Responsibility
NEER is a grassroots volunteer movement mobilizing United Church of Christ (UCC) persons and resources into a holistic ministry cognizant of the earth and its creatures. NEER members believe that all living things on our planet are interdependent in a vast web of life; therefore, God's promise of "Shalom" must be envisioned in ecological terms.
www.center1.com/NEER/
Target Earth
A national movement of Christians who reflect a commitment to love our neighbors as ourselves and to care for the earth in an age of global environmental demise. Motivated by the biblical call to be faithful stewards of everything God created, Target Earth is active in 15 countries — buying endangered lands, protecting people, saving the jaguar, sharing the love of Jesus, feeding the hungry, and reforesting ravaged terrain.
www.targetearth.org
Globalization & the Economy (trade, debt, economic justice, Jubilee, living wage, labor/ unions, urbanization, poverty, consumption)
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
Los Angeles County interfaith organization for economic justice.
www.cluela.org
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
Looks to meet Millenium Development Goals as put forth by the U.N.to reduce human suffering across the globe.
www.episcopalglobalreconciliation.org
Clergy and Laity Network
National interfaith organization working for economic justice.
www.clnnlc.org/default.htm
Sabbath Economics Collaborative
Faith-based organizing vehicle for economic justice.
www.sabbatheconomics.org/content/index.php
Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
A tri-national coalition of religious, labor, environmental, Latino, and women’s organizations who support worker and community struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice in the maquiladora industry in Northern Mexico.
www.coalitionforjustice.net
Episcopal Urban Caucus
A network of mainly Episcopal clergy and lay people dedicated to urban ministry. EUC has been the primary advocacy group within the Episcopal Church, USA for anti-racism education and ministry, and holds an annual assembly that brings together urban activists from around the church for networking and strategizing
www.episcopalurbancaucus.org
Jubilee USA Network
Continuing the work of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, this network works to achieve definitive debt cancellation for impoverished nations around the world. Recognizing that many of these debts are unpayable and exact a great social and environmental toll, the campaign works for debt cancellation that is not conditioned on policy reforms that perpetuate or deepen poverty or environmental degradation.
www.j2000usa.org
Religious Working Group on the IMF and World Bank
People of faith argue that over the past 50 years the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have done too much damage to developing nations, and that these institutions must be changed or eliminated.
www.sndden.org/rwg/
Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community
UUJEC aims to focus that denomination's attention and power toward effecting a sustainable network of local and regional initiatives for systemic economic change.
www.pitt.edu/~hirtle/uujec.html
United for a Fair Economy
A "movement support" organization that provides media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in the US. UFE’s work is grounded in the belief that our country would be a far more democratic, prosperous, and caring community if we narrowed the vast gap between the very wealthy and everyone else.
www.ufenet.org
Health, Hunger & Housing (HIV/AIDS, abortion, welfare reform, social services, homelessness, children, education, drugs & alcohol)
Episcopal Relief and Development
Episcopal Relief and Development responds to human suffering around the world. We provide emergency assistance after disasters, rebuild communities, and help children and families climb out of poverty.
www.er-d.org
The Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
GAIA's mission is to facilitate HIV prevention strategies in developing countries working through religious and interfaith organizations. Program goals include overcoming denial of HIV/AIDS, de-stigmatizing ill people, and education on such HIV-related topics as transmission risks (including mother-to-infant), nutrition, STD infection, and the social status of women. GAIA assists
local entities in technical advising, training, and resource identification and mobilization, for contextually appropriate program development.
www.thegaia.org
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Representing dozens of pro-choice denominations and religious organizations, the RCRC works to ensure reproductive choice through the moral power of religious communities. All the programs seek to give clear voice to the reproductive issues of people of color, those living in poverty, and other underserved populations.
www.rcrc.org
Human Sexuality (sexual ethics. LGBT - lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgendered - rights, queer politics)
Brethren Mennonite Council of gay & lesbian anabaptists
BMC works to provide support for Mennonite and Church of the Brethren gay, lesbian and bisexual people, their friends and families. It fosters dialogue in churches, and provides information about homosexuality from the social sciences, biblical studies, and theology.
www.webcom.com/bmc/
Cathedral of Hope
Based in Dallas, Texas, this nondenominational Christian church called itself the largest church in the world with a primary outreach to lesbian and gay people. It also works to be of service to anyone in need. "The Advocate" magazine named the Rev. Michael Piazza one of the most influential people in the gay and lesbian movement in August 1999.
www.cathedralofhope.com
Dignity USA
A fellowship of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Roman Catholics.
www.dignityusa.org
Evangelicals Concerned With Reconciliation
Founded as a grassroots volunteer organization, ECWR is a non-denominational evangelical resource providing a community of fellowship that is a safe place for gay and lesbian Christians to reconcile and integrate their faith and sexuality, and to grow toward Christian maturity.
www.ecwr.org
Gay Christians
An internet network of affirmative and supportive chat channels. Its "membership" draws support from a great variety of faith traditions, and its strength lies in such diversity. Gay Christians affirms God's acceptance and love of all people, regardless of their sexual or affectional orientation.
www.gaychristians.org
Integrity
A fellowship of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Episcopalians.
www.integrityusa.org
Interfaith Working Group
An organization offering Christian gay and lesbian resources, and fighting for human rights for all.
www.iwgonline.org
Lutherans Concerned
Based in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, this gay and lesbian advocacy group serves as "a Christian Ministry Affirming God's Love for Lesbian and Gay People".
www.lcna.org
The Oasis/ Missouri
Assisting gay, lesbian, and transgendered Episcopalians, their families, and friends with support, resources, and educational materials to assist their congregations and clergy.
www.TheOasisMissouri.org
Presbyterians for Gay and Lesbian Concerns
An organization seeking the full participation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people of faith in the life, ministry, and witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
www.mlp.org
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
The UFMCC is an inclusive worldwide fellowship of Christian congregations with a special outreach to the world's gay and lesbian community. It works to create a community of healing and reconciliation through faith, hope, and love, and to confront the injustice of poverty, sexism, racism, and homophobia through Christian social action.
www.ufmcc.com
Whosoever
An online magazine dedicated to the spiritual growth of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Christians. Whosoever seeks to dispel the myths and lies spread by Christian extremists who seek to keep GLBT people from God’s realm.
www.whosoever.org
Indigenous Peoples (aboriginals, native peoples, First Nations, and sacred sites)
Indigenous Environmental Network
An alliance of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, environmental protection of their lands, water, air, and maintaining the Sacred Fire of their traditions.
www.ienearth.org
Religious Study and Interfaith & Ecumenical Relations (interreligious dialogue, community & communion, theological education, religious intolerance, anti-Semitism, spirituality & faith)
ANGLICAN & EPISCOPALIAN
American Anglican Council
For an opposing view, a site that generally offers a different perspective on many contentious issues within the church.
www.americananglican.org
Episcopal Church, USA
ECUSA is the U.S. province of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It represents approximately 2.5 million members in over 7,000 churches, across 100 regional dioceses.
www.episcopalchurch.org
Fundacion Cristosal
A source of information and current news on El Salvador and about the mission of the Salvadoran Anglican Church. Cristosal is a network of people and parishes concerned about the Salvadoran people, and it is an effort to engage others in the people-to-people exchanges and projects for the benefit of the Salvadoran church and people.
www.cristosal.org
Global Episcopal Mission Network
An association of dioceses in the Episcopal Church together with partner dioceses in the Anglican Communion committed to the engagement of the people and leadership of the church in global mission.
www.gemn.org
GraceCathedral.org — Life from a Spiritual Perspective
A Webby Award-winning spirituality website produced by GraceCom, the media ministry of Grace (Episcopal) Cathedral in San Francisco, California. Multimedia highlights include "The Forum at Grace Cathedral," a regular live webcast of interesting social & spiritual voices, and webcasts of the Sunday services live from Grace Cathedral.
www.gracecathedral.org
Louie Crew's Anglican Pages
An essential collection for Episcopalians on the internet, this extensive web site contains a rich and diverse array of opinion, news and analysis relating to the Episcopal Church and Anglican community.
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/
ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN:
The Covenant Network of Presbyterians
The Covenant Network of Presbyterians is a broad-based, national group of clergy and lay leaders working for a church that is simultaneously faithful, just, and whole.
www.covenantnetwork.org/home.htm
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a voluntary, nonsectarian organization working to advance justice throughout the world.
http://www.uusc.org
Center for Progressive Christianity
The Center for Progressive Christianity provides guiding ideas, networking opportunities, and resources for progressive churches, organizations, individuals and others with connections to Christianity.
http://www.tcpc.org
Protestants for the Common Good
Protestants for the Common Good acts for social justice and the common good as essential to the Christian faith, educating and mobilizing people of faith to become effective participants in political democracy.
www.thecommongood.org/home.asp
American Friends Service Committee
AFSC is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the belief in the worth of every person, and on faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice
www.afsc.org
Baptist Peace Fellowship
The BPF goals are to educate, inspire and mobilize Baptists for greater involvement in justice and peace concerns at local, regional, national and international levels. Particular attention is given to clarifying the Biblical mandate for such activity.
http://www.bpfna.org/
Challenge
An independent South African magazine founded on the belief that Christians have a crucial role to play in constructing and maintaining a democratic, just and peaceful South Africa. Challenge is ecumenical and inter-denominational, and seeks to be a critical and prophetic voice that will inspire, inform and educate.
www.challengemag.co.za
Christian Socialist Movement
The CSM, based in Britain, emerged in its current form in the 1960s from a tradition that stretches back to the early church. CSM is now worldwide and is linked to similar democratic socialist organizations in Europe and around the world. All in CSM share a belief in justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.
www.christiansocialist.org.uk
Disciples of Christ
"We Disciples have beliefs and practices in common with all sorts of Christians. These apparent similarities sometimes are superficial, sometimes fundamental. We baptize by immersion, so we look like Baptists. We have Communion every Sunday, so we look a bit like Roman Catholics. We stress the ministry of the laity, so we look a little like Quakers. Our congregations call their pastors rather than accepting assigned ministers, so in that respect we look like Presbyterians. We rely heavily on preaching and teaching, so we look somewhat like Methodists. We have congregational government, so we look a lot like the United Church of Christ."
www.disciples.org
Evangelical Universalists
Universalism is a liberal religious tradition, found mainly in the United States, with a vision of wide hope and human potential. This page is dedicated to Christian Universalism, which affirms that God's saving and active love is so complete that it finds every person: nobody is lost forever. While Universalism is often overshadowed by its partner in the Unitarian Universalist Association, Unitarianism, it remains a vital and promising faith.
www.universalistchurch.net
L'Arche
L'Arche is a collective of over 110 communities around the world (14 in the U.S.) that — rooted in the teachings of Jesus, especially the Beatitudes — offer family to the outcast and hope to neighborhoods where they live. L’Arche is French for "the Ark," a safe place to hold people where God's covenant has been manifested.
http://www.larcheusa.org/
Mennonite Central Committee
Founded in 1920, MCC is a relief, service, community development and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. MCC has over 800 workers in 58 countries around the world in a variety of programs that reflect the biblical call to care for hungry and thirsty, the stranger, the sick, and those in prison.
www.mcc.org
Sojourners
A Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice. Sojourners publishes an evangelical monthly social justice magazine, providing an alternative voice and vision to the religious right, and offers daily offerings on its "SojoNet" web site.
www.sojo.net
Nonviolent Ways Project
The Nonviolent Ways Project, and its Strategic Pastoral Action Network
(SPAN), is a social justice and human rights project that provides resources and the presence of solidarity with struggling communities around the world, in the praxis of liberation theology and non-violence.
www.nonviolentways.org/
The Other Side
Since 1965, The Other Side has served as an alternative Christian voice, a place for people who want their work for justice and peace to be spiritually grounded. The bimonthly social justice magazine advances a healing Christian vision that’s biblical and compassionate, appreciative of the creative arts, and committed to the intimate intertwining of personal spirituality and social transformation.
www.theotherside.org
Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship
The UUCF serves Christian Unitarians and Universalists according to their expressed religious needs; and upholds and promotes the historic Unitarian and Universalist witness and conscience within the church universal.
www.uua.org/uucf/
United Church of Christ
The UCC, founded in 1957, is one of the most diverse Christian churches in the U.S. The UCC motto is "That they all may be one," Jesus’ prayer of unity for the church. General information about the UCC as well as its Justice and Witness ministry division is available on its web site.
www.ucc.org
World Council of Churches
An international fellowship of Christian churches, built on the foundation of encounter, dialogue and collaboration. The WCC was formed to serve and advance the ecumenical movement — the quest for restoring the unity of the church — by encouraging in its members a common commitment to follow the gospel. The prayer of the churches which belong to the WCC is for the renewal and faithful response to the people of God in witness and service to the world.
www.wcc-coe.org
INTERFAITH:
Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies
The Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies (ICJS) is a non-profit organization that concentrates its educational expertise on the dual tasks of disarming religious hatred and establishing models of interfaith understanding.
http://www.icjs.org/home.html
South Coast Interfaith Council
The South Coast Interfaith Council promotes mutual understanding, respect, appreciation and cooperation among people of faith in California's Greater South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach-West Orange County area.
http://www.scinterfaith.org
Fellowship of Reconciliation
FOR is the largest, oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States. Since 1915, FOR has carried on programs and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience. It is a branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), which has affiliates in over 40 countries.
www.forusa.org
The Interfaith Alliance
A non-partisan organization that works for human rights and to provide an alternative to the religious right. TIA offers a mainstream, faith-based agenda committed to the positive role of religion as a healing and constructive force in public life. TIA draws on shared religious principles to challenge those who manipulate religion to promote an extreme political agenda based on a false gospel of irresponsible individualism.
www.interfaithalliance.org
Interfaith Center for Peace
A community education program based in Ohio that deals with many issues of peacemaking, and is especially known for its work in conflict resolution and peacemaking education.
www.peace-center.org
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
A thirty-year-old international coalition of 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors including denominations, religious communities, pension funds, healthcare corporations, foundations and dioceses with combined portfolios worth an estimated $100 billion. ICCR members merge social values with investment decisions, believing they must achieve more than an acceptable financial return. ICCR members utilize religious investments and other resources to change unjust or harmful corporate policies, working for peace, economic justice and stewardship of the Earth.
www.iccr.org
United Religions Initiative
An international organization which works to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.
www.uri.org
ISLAMIC:
Muslim Peace Fellowship
The MPF (Ansar as-Salam) is a gathering of peace and justice-oriented Muslims of all backgrounds who are dedicated to making the beauty of Islam evident in the world. The MPF believes that personal example is the only convincing argument for the truth of any religion.
www.mpfweb.org
JEWISH:
Progressive Jewish Alliance
A non-profit, non-denominational, inter-generational social change organization.
www.pjalliance.org
The Shalom Center
A network of American Jews who draw on Jewish tradition and spirituality to seek peace, pursue justice, heal the earth, and build community.
www.shalomctr.org
Jewish Peace Fellowship
The JPF is a diverse group of people, religious and secular Jews from all our traditions and all branches of Judaism. All believe deeply that Jewish ideals and experience provide inspiration for a nonviolent way of life. The JPF sees Jewish tradition as a continual calling toward peace, justice and compassion, a tradition whose goal is to bring all people to the consciousness that peace and not war is where we should direct our vision, energy and lives.
www.jewishpeacefellowship.org
The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
The RAC is the Washington office of the American Hebrew Congregation and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, representing 1.5 million Reform Jews and 1,700 Reform rabbis in 900 congregations throughout North America. The RAC serves as the hub for liberal Judaism's political action center.
www.rac.org
Tikkun
Since 1986, this magazine has provided a Jewish critique of politics, culture and society. It is a liberal alternative to the voices of Jewish conservatism and spiritual deadness in the Jewish world and as the spiritual alternative to the voices of materialism and selfishness in Western society. Tikkun provides a space for both affiliated and non-affiliated Jews who seek to renew their Judaism, and a space for Jews and non-Jews alike to shape a politics out of spiritual values.
www.tikkun.org
ROMAN CATHOLIC:
Pace Bene
Pace e Bene's mission is to address society's epidemic of violence through the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence. Founded by the Franciscan Friars of California.
Australian Jesuits
Australian Jesuits are involved in social justice and welfare, in education, in media and publishing, in spirituality and pastoral work.
www.jesuit.org.au
Call to Action
An independent Catholic organization of over 18,000 people and 40 local organizations who believe the Spirit of God is at work in the whole church, not just in its appointed leaders. CTA believes the entire Catholic church has the obligation of responding to the needs of the world and taking initiative in programs of peace and justice.
www.cta-usa.org
Catholic Worker
A collective of communities living out the Gospel through intentional community and voluntary poverty and becoming servants for all.
www.catholicworker.org
Center of Concern
A Jesuit social justice center with an evolving faith vision and an unswerving conviction that it can and must make a difference in a world where billions are hungry and suffer daily injustices. COC is committed to creating a world where all economic structures and policies guarantee the dignity and basic rights of every member of the human family.
www.coc.org
National Catholic Reporter
A (monthly) social justice magazine, working for an open and inclusive Roman Catholic Church.
www.natcath.org
Pax Christi USA
A national Catholic peace movement, whose 14,000 members work for the transformation of society through nonviolence, and advocate peacemaking as a priority. It publishes peace education literature and develops ministry programs for the sake of creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. It is a section of Pax Christi International, which is active in over 30 countries.
www.paxchristiusa.org
Salt of the Earth
A social justice journal based in the Claretian order. The Claretians are committed to seeing the world through the eyes of the poor. They strive to respond to the most urgent and timely needs, using all means possible to care for the spiritual and material needs of others. They give special attention to the needs of recent immigrants, youth and families, leadership training, and spiritual renewal.
http://salt.claretianpubs.org
Scriptural Reflection and Church Commentary
"The Geranium Farm" by Barbara Crafton
www.geraniumfarm.org/
"Homily Grits" by Grant Gallup
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Elcrew/homilygrits/index.html
"Notes from the Fig Tree" by Jim Lewis
http://www.figtreenotes.com/
The Text This Week
http://www.textweek.com/
The Every Voice Network
http://www.everyvoice.net/
Peace, Human Rights & Democracy (militarism, war, anti-nuclear work, guns, politics, government, voting rights, law, nonviolence, civil disobedience, self-determination)
Middle East Window
Combats false stereotypes of the Middle East in the Western world by collecting
articles, personal stories and Christian theological reflections from
and about the region.
http://middleeastwindow.org
PeaceNet
A secular organizing vehicle for gender, economic, race, environmental justice issues.
www.igc.org
Faithful Democracy
Focuses on civic participation among religious people.
www.faithfuldemocracy.org
Faith Voices
Supports the work of its diverse member organizations by fostering community, sparking new thinking, training leaders, and informing the public about their values and activities, while endorsing church-state separation.
www.faithvoices.org
California Council of Churches
The California Council of Churches educates faith communities to pursue justice, equity, and fairness in the treatment of all people, in particular those most vulnerable in society.
www.speakfromtheheart.net/calchurches/calchurches_about.htm
The National Conference for Community and Justice
A human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry, and racism in America.
www.nccj.org
Faithful America
A progressive, inclusive, and responsive interfaith electronic advocacy community dedicated to providing a powerful collective voice to help advance the cause of compassion and justice in public policy.
www.faithfulamerica.org
Churches for Middle East Peace
An ecumenical working group of Christian organizations working since 1984 out of the conviction that the policy perspectives and long Middle East experience of our member bodies can play a useful role in the public arena. CMEP’s work focuses on Washington in the knowledge that sound United States policy is crucial to achieving and maintaining just and stable relationships throughout the area.
www.cmep.org
Democratic Socialists of America Religious Commission
This is the oldest commission in the organization, dating back to the origins of DSA as the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. It is open to people of all faiths whose socialism is in some way inspired by their spiritual identity.
www.dsausa.org/rs/
Episcopal Peace Fellowship
EPF aids and encourages all Episcopalians to strive for justice and peace among all people and to bear nonviolent witness to Christ’s call for peace. As a community, EPF is dedicated to discovering and practicing the biblical concept of peace.
www.episcopalpeacefellowship.org
Friends for a Non-Violent World
Through education, through example, and through experiences in non-violent living, FNVW works to build a world where all people can speak truth to power, practice alternatives to violence, gain strength from community, and act in a spirit of cooperation to work for peace and justice.
www.fnvw.org
Institute for Healing of Memories
A trust that seeks to contribute to the healing journey of individuals, communities and nations, which grew out of the Trauma Centre for Victims of Violence and Torture. Activities such as workshops, seminars, talks and sermons are offered, as well as models for dealing with emotions such as anger, hatred and guilt, and processes for reconciliation and forgiveness and an experiential way of learning about and from the past.
www.healingofmemories.co.za
Nevada Desert Experience
NDE works to stop nuclear weapons testing through a campaign of prayer, education, dialogue, and nonviolent direct action. NDE mobilizes people of faith to work toward nuclear abolition, proclaiming the immorality of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction which are physically, emotionally, and spiritually devastating to all of creation.
www.nevadadesertexperience.org
The Nonviolence Web
This site is home to many of the US's most dynamic peace groups. Regular updates are offered on "Nonviolence Web Upfront," the homepage news and opinion magazine of the web site.
www.nonviolence.org
Pastors for Peace
A project of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which works to highlight the struggles of oppressed peoples in Central America & the Caribbean. Its primary effort is to bring aid and solidarity to Cubans suffering under the embargo of the economic blockade of Cuba. People of conscience from many parts of the world join together to deliver caravans of aid to Cuba, in nonviolent civil disobedience to the U.S.-sponsored blockade.
www.ifconews.org
Project Ploughshares
A project of the Canadian Council of Churches, Project Ploughshares promotes disarmament and demilitarization, the peaceful resolution of political conflict, and the pursuit of security based on equity, justice, and a sustainable environment. Public understanding and support for these goals are encouraged through research, education, and the development of constructive policy alternatives that advance those objectives in Canada and internationally.
www.ploughshares.ca
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center
A movement among Palestinian Christians which is committed to a prophetic ministry in solidarity with the oppressed and to the holistic liberation of all people. Sabeel strives to promote a more accurate international awareness regarding the identity, presence, and witness of Palestinian Christians as well as their contemporary concerns.
www.sabeel.org
Servicio Internacional Para la Paz (International Service for Peace)
SIPAZ is a coalition of organizations that came together in 1995 to support the peace process in Chiapas, Mexico. SIPAZ — based in Santa Cruz, California, USA — combines violence reduction and peacebuilding strategies in Chiapas with efforts to inform and mobilize the international community.
www.sipaz.org
Witness for Peace
A faith-based not-for-profit organization, dedicated to promoting nonviolent alternatives to United States policies which contribute to poverty and oppression in Central America and the Caribbean.
www.witnessforpeace.org
Speak From the Heart
Progressive Christian webzine.
www.speakfromtheheart.net"
The Christian Century
The Christian Century -- "Linking Christian faith and contemporary life" -- the century-old, independent weekly. NOTE: A few articles from each issue are available on-line.
www.christiancentury.org
Race & Ethnicity (anti-racism work, xenophobia, racial discrimination, racial justice, the Civil Rights Movement, affirmative action, reparations)
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
An organization advocating for equality in a free, plural, democratic society in the U.S. capitol and around the country. Together, over 50 million Americans belong to the organizations that comprise LCCR. Its focus is fighting discrimination in all its forms, improving intergroup relations, and promoting the full participation of every American in every facet of our nation's life.
www.civilrights.org
Refugees & Immigration (migrant workers, internally displaced peoples)
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Responding to growing anti-immigrant sentiment in California, members of immigrant and religious communities founded ICIR in 1994. Since the passage of State Proposition 187, ICIR has grown into a network of 1000-plus congregations, denominations, organizations, lay and religious leaders. It continues challenging policies, legislation, and attitudes that attack newcomers by giving life to our shared faith traditions and promoting hospitality to the "stranger in our midst".
www.icironline.org
Rural & Migrant Ministry
An interfaith organization that works to overcome the prejudices and poverty that degrade and debilitate all members of our society by building communities that celebrate diversity, achieve true mutuality, and offer dignity and opportunity to all. RMM supports greater self-determination for farm workers and the rural poor.
www.ruralmigrantministry.org
Science & Technology (medical ethics, genetic engineering, the internet)
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
An affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union which promotes the creative mutual interaction between theology and the natural sciences. CTNS focuses primarily on the relation between contemporary physics, cosmology, technology, environmental studies, evolutionary and molecular biology, and Christian theology and ethics.
www.ctns.org
Episcopal Church Working Group on Science, Technology & Faith
This group works to facilitate dialogue between members of the Episcopal Church and of the scientific, technical, and medical communities, and to be an educational resource for the Church, its seminaries, and the wider Christian community.
www.episcopalchurch.org/science/
Science and the Spiritual Quest
A project of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, SSQ promotes dialogue among leading scientists on the connections between their scientific work and their religious or spiritual identities. Science and the Spiritual Quest (SSQ) does not advocate a particular religious position or a specific outcome for discussions between science and religion.
www.ssq.net
Women & Gender (feminism, sexism, sexual exploitation, women’s ordination)
Episcopal Women's Caucus
The Caucus was formed in the struggle for women's ordination, and continues to work for its vision of a church that honors and rejoinced in the ministries of all its members. We strive to help the church free itself from racism, sexism, clericalism, heterosexism, ableism, ageism, and from teachings and practices that sustain and reinforce power inequalities. Membership is open to both men and women.
www.episcopalwomenscaucus.org
Jewish Feminist Resources
A web page of feminist online resources from a Jewish perspective.
www.jew-feminist-resources.com/
Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual
WATER is a feminist educational center, a network of justice-seeking people that began in 1983 as a response to the need for serious theological, ethical, and liturgical development for and by women. WATER works locally, nationally and internationally doing programs, projects, publications, workshops, retreats, counseling and liturgical planning which have helped thousands of people be part of an inclusive church and society.
www.his.com/~mhunt/