Advocacy

The CBF Podcast Stage featured interviews with theologians, church historians, remarkable leaders, and practitioners. Presenting...

There are matters of dire need in our world that require our attention now. If...

CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter recently spent a week at the United States-Mexico border where...

The way forward is to root the long-term advocacy priorities of our congregations and of...

We are 50 years removed from the Civil Rights Movement and we can often act...

In Harvey’s new book, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America,...

By Andy Hale We live such transient lives. For most, we no longer live in...

Protest was and is the means to this holy end. Protest, in its many different...

As a culture we do not do a good job of creating space for survivors...

CBF Advocacy urges people of faith and all others who stand #WithDREAMers to contact their...

This week my Facebook feed filled up with stories around the hashtag #MeToo. Maybe yours...

Alexia Salvatierra is an ELCA pastor and immigration activist, founder of the Faith-Rooted Organizing UnNetwork,...

“If DACA ends, life as I know it will end, too. I won’t be able...

I accept that thoughtful Christians may disagree on public policy, and I certainly acknowledge my...

When we love our heritage, our flag, or our statues more than we love our...

The problem, however, is that the very monuments that embody white Southerners necessarily disembody people...

Sometimes pastors are cautioned about bringing politics into the pulpit. We must remember that the...

They say that confession is good for the soul. I pray that my confession may...

“I don’t know, because we all matter to God.” This answer was at best incomplete....

Fear pervaded Charlottesville, Virginia. But fearlessness, both by those who led the counter-protests and those...

CBF Advocacy provides the means to speak effectively and organize strategically when migrants face the...

Jesus teaches that we live in a world that celebrates an ethic of fairness—and eye...

Just one account of the trauma caused from clergy sexual misconduct and the years that...

All of those commands take courage. They take a faith that is, if not ironclad,...

A Cooperative Baptist seminarian in Texas shares five ways that churches can support foster and...

Dear President Trump: I occasionally write my parishioners a word of encouragement after having prayed...

Last Thursday, February 2, was Groundhog’s Day! But, I’ve been seeing a different kind of...

I am not original here in my plea to the church, nor do I think...

With a swipe of the presidential pen last week, the United States turned its back...

And part of our privilege as white people is the freedom to speak up…or not…because...