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January 28, 2012 Jacqui on HuffPost Over the foregoing nine months, I have written a number of pieces for the Huffington Post. You can find them compiled below, or a the Huffington Post. To subscribe to my HuffPost RSS feed, click here. Friday, November 18, 2011 0
November 11, 2011 Middle Project Leadership Lab Middle Project Young Adult Leadership Lab graduate Kerry Docherty shares these thoughts about relationships, learnings and being in a spiritual community. Relationships I spent most of my spiritual life a loner. I would attend a religious service, sit in the 0
October 27, 2011 For Such a Time as This It is getting cold outside, and sadly, tempers are getting hot in Atlanta and Oakland as occupiers are dispersed. In our own city, even in the midst of tensions, I keep hearing stories of the love and care being displayed 0
October 7, 2011 Occupy New York Friends, One of the reasons I am passionate about Middle Church is that we have been addressing economic justice for more than 50 years. Olga Downey was an older woman who helped start the clothing closet. She got her clothes 0
July 26, 2011 Being God’s Love by Jacqui Lewis Before I heard our intern, Arin Fisher’s amazing sermon on Sunday at church, I was at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau as couples were lining barricades on the first day same-sex couples could legally wed in New York 0
July 19, 2011 What’s Wrong with This Picture? The Reverend John Janka, The Middle Project We have now turned on our own children. Predatory lending lead to foreclosures of homes largely occupied by middle class families. These foreclosures have allowed banks that participated in these predatory lending practices 3
July 15, 2011 Towards A More Just Society Friends, To my mind the most important thing about being a person of faith is to share God’s vision for a more just society. As we say at Middle Church often, we are not saved until everyone is saved. Saved 1
June 29, 2011 Yes We Can! Dear Friends, It has been an historic month in New York State and at Middle Collegiate Church. Our month included the sounds of freedom. Musicians from Broadway, Indie, and reggae sang at our Marriage Equality Concert in early June. Then 0
June 14, 2011 Just One Vote: The Power of Relationships Hello everyone. Today several of my staff and I went down to City Hall to join our voices to those gathered in support of marriage equality. As we watch and pray for an affirming vote, read these words from my 0
May 12, 2011 Pride. Power. Praise. Dear Friends, The children in our congregation have been rehearsing a play with some theater students at New York University called Creation Stories. It was written by the students to help our children think about how different cultures have different 0