The migrant caravan that has arrived at the border between Mexico and the Unites States came to our attention back in early October. Back when thousands were walking across a bridge between Guatemala and Mexico....

Reverend Traci Blackmon (Executive Minister of Justice, UCC) tells a story about an historic, white Methodist church whose members decided to welcome people of African descent. This happened around 1850....

Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr. began to focus on the intersections between racism and poverty, he launched what he called a “Poor People’s Campaign.” Many of the marchers and protesters who had joined his work against racism...

I love to tell the story of my Scottish grandfather, Daniel. At the age of seven, Daniel became an indentured servant. It was a common arrangement in the 1800’s among European families like Daniel’s: dirt poor, unable to feed four...