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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 GraceOnline — Life from a Spiritual Perspective: an online spirituality journal 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 "Veriditas: The Worldwide Labyrinth Project": www.gracecathedral.org Integrity: a fellowship of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Episcopalians: www.integrityusa.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/
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: www.primeline.com/~bpfna/ 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. http://www.universalistchurch.net/ 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.geocities.com/larcheusa/index.htm 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 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.spanweb.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
Faith & Justice Network: a web site for Canadians of all faiths who share a concern for justice and peace: http://community.web.net/faith/join.html 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 GraceOnline — Life from a Spiritual Perspective: an online spirituality journal 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 "Veriditas: The Worldwide Labyrinth Project": www.gracecathedral.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 Social Justice Page: a selection of Islamic writings and perspectives, collected by a Pakistani American: www.wco.com/~altaf/altaf.html 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.nonviolence.org/mpf/ 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.nonviolence.org/jpf/ 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.rj.org/rac 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 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 Radical Catholic Page: a collection of liberal Catholic resources and documents: www.bway.net/~halsall/radcath.html 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
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