Spring 2023: Injustice of the Unhoused

A Seminarian’s Reflection By Meg Kelly I love homegrown produce. There is nothing like spending time in the garden weeding,…

Marking an anniversary and reflecting on a decade’s worth of witness and prayer, Rodney Sadler recounts the beginnings of the Moral Monday movement, outlines its progress since, and names his hopes for its prophetic work into the decades to come.

Dangerous Dialogues is a series of conversations around timely and contentious issues begun by the Center for Social Justice and Reconciliation to address chronic and emerging areas of injustice fracturing our communities and requiring redress. For the 2022-2023 academic year, the Center has focused the bulk of their Dialogues on to bring greater clarity and understanding around our unhoused neighbors.

Rodney Sadler weaves together the hope of the resurrection with its implications for justice as a concrete outcome of the Easter story.

Deeply committed to issues of equality and intellectual curiosity, Claude Forehand seeks ways to intersect these passions though his own writing, teaching, and activism.

Each January, the Center for Social Justice and Reconciliation at Union Presbyterian Seminary sponsors the African American Preaching Series. Intended to highlight the prophetic character and dynamic engagement of the homiletic tradition within the African American church, the 2023 series featured two nationally recognized preachers, Rev. Graylan Hagler and Rev. Jimmie Hawkins.

Since our nation’s inception, we have struggled with ways to adequately address the varied causes and necessary responses to the needs of our neighbors without homes. In recent years, there has been an increase in efforts to vilify those without homes. Sadly, many of those working to cause greater marginalization of the already marginalized are people of faith.