Social Justice

A simple SURVEY from our Green Team

September 18, 2011

The Green Team met on Saturday, September 17!  A lot is going on.  Send an email to our Administrator if you would like a copy of the minutes. The Green Team is doing a survey!  They want to know how many people at the Chapel would like to participate in some kind of program for [...]

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“Undocumented and unafraid”

July 20, 2011

This spring, Ju, Hong, an undocumented student at CAL, was at the Chapel speaking with the East Bay Interfaith Immigration Coalition during our monthly meeting in the parish hall.  Here is an update from him that bears witness to the injustice unfolding all around us and to the Obama administration’s radical and extreme enforcement of [...]

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Center & Library for the Bible and Social Justice

July 16, 2011

The Chapel is very pleased to announce the creation of “The Center & Library for the Bible and Social Justice.”  One of our very own members, the Rev. Dr. John H. Elliott, has joined together with other internationally renowned scholars and theologians to create this center.  They have committed to donating their own personal libraries [...]

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Katie Keil — off to Argentina with the ELCA

July 13, 2011

Dear brothers and sisters at University Lutheran Chapel, I want to take a quick moment to thank you all for the support I have received at the Chapel and to share with you my plans for the next year of my life. When I came to the Bay Area as part of the Lutheran Volunteer [...]

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Save the date: 9/21 @ PLTS

July 12, 2011

Dr. Nancy Elizabeth Bedford will be the speaker at Founders’ Day on September 21, 2011. “My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the young women in my city” (Lamentations 3:51, NRSV). Violence against women in Latin America and against Latinas in the United States is on the rise. How do our ideas about [...]

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SHARE’s Garden Project in El Salvador

July 7, 2011

We support SHARE El Salvador and SHARE’s wonderful work with Salvadorans in Central America as well as the United States.  Click here for a very interesting narrative and summary of the first in a series of workshops for women in organic home vegetable gardens.  This year, an additional twenty women will be trained in organic [...]

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Lutherans respond to anti-immigrant Alabama law

June 11, 2011

Lutherans have responsed to Alabama’s anti-immigrant legislation HB 56. Read here for a Summary of Alabama’s HB 56 from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. Read here for a Letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley from the Rev. H. Julian Gordy, Bishop of the Southeastern Synod Alabama of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and chairman [...]

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SHARE El Salvador’s new vision

June 9, 2011

This from our friends at SHARE:  El Salvador! It has been a busy spring and we have several exciting announcements for you. First, SHARE is eager to share its new vision with you. In addition to our work in El Salvador, beginning this year SHARE plans to  focus on developing relationships with and building the capacity of [...]

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Somos Familia

June 4, 2011

Somos Familia is a support group oriented to Latino families with children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ). Located in the East Bay, it is a primarily volunteered-run, family-driven effort, supported by many community partners. The Chapel is very pleased to be one of these, having  partnered with Somos Familia on [...]

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Hops for Humanity

June 1, 2011

June 18th:  Hops for Humanity: A Community Beer Festival is a fundraiser event put on by the Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC). LVC unites full-time stipended Volunteers with financial supporters, non-profit organizations and ministries to work for peace with justice across the nation. In addition to working for justice, LVC Volunteers live together in intentional household [...]

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