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On average, women earn
$.80
for every dollar men earn. In the U.S., this wage gap also varies by other factors. For example, compared to every dollar white, non-Hispanic men earn:
- Asian-American women make $.85
- African-American women earn $.61
- Native American women earn $.58
- Latinas earn $.53
- And mothers make $.69 compared to fathers
Equal Pay Today
At the current rate, it will take
202
years for women achieve equal pay.
Global Gender Gap Report
Women who had a
male twin
were
15%
less likely to graduate from high school
,
4%
less likely to finish col
lege, and
11%
less likely to be married—compared with women with a twin sister. They also had
6%
fewer children and earned
9%
less money.
National Academy of Sciences.
Women are
47%
more likely to suffer severe injuries in car crashes because safety features are designed for men.
American Public Health Assn.
Women do more than
3
times as much unpaid care work as men.
International Labor Org
33,000
girls become child brides -- every day.
Girls Not Brides
Over
650 million
women today were married when they were children.
Girls Not Brides
For every female film character, there are
2.24
male characters.
Geena Davis Institute
Only
6
countries give women the same legal rights as men: Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Sweden
World Bank
Only
8
out of
31
countries in Europe have laws that state that sex without consent is rape.
Amnesty International
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A Charity Navigator resource that provides data from
Giving USA 2018
,
the Annual Report on Philanthropy
,
including how much is given, by who and where the donations go.
Learn more.
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The God Who Sees:
Immigrants, the Bible,
and the Journey to Belong
By Karen Gonzalez. In the midst of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the tremendous pressure to assimilate, Recounts her family’s migration from the instability of Guatemala to making a new life in Los Angeles and the suburbs of south Florida. Also includes stories of immigrants and refugees in Scripture such as Abraham, Hagar, Joseph & Ruth.
Read more.
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Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
A resource from University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt that offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887. As blue “Indian homelands” disappear, small red areas appear, indicating the establishment of reservations.
The project’s source data is a set of maps produced in 1899 by the Bureau of American Ethnology -- a research unit of the Smithsonian that published and collected anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic research on the culture of North American Indians, as the nineteenth century drew to a close.
Learn more.
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Seeking Refuge
A 48 page resource from the Global Sisters Report, a project of the National Catholic Reporter. Includes stories of refugees from Honduras, Burma, Syria, South Sudan etc. and those trying to help them.
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How Jails Extort the Poor
A TED Talk featuring Salil Dudani, who shares stories from individuals who have experienced debtors' prison in Ferguson, Missouri, challenging us to think differently about how we punish the poor and marginalized.
Watch now.
For more on the
Criminal Justice System
,
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Vulnerable: Rethinking Human Trafficking
By Raleigh Sandler. Makes the case that anyone can fight human trafficking by focusing on those who are most often targeted. Invites the reader to understand their role in the problem of human trafficking, but more importantly, their role in the solution. Using the power of story and candid interviews, seeks to discover how ordinary people can fight human trafficking by recognizing vulnerability and getting involved.
Read more.
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The Ten Green Commandments
of Laudato Si’
By Joshtrom Kureethadam. A commentary on the key ideas and themes of Pope Francis' encyclical letter on the environment,
Laudato Si
(
Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home
). Following the six chapter outline of the encyclical, the book is arranged according to the "See-Judge-Act" social analysis methodology that is often used in spirituality, moral theology, and social sciences.
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SNAP Benefits
A resource from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that lists what is and what is not eligible through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as "food stamps"). Among the items not allowed are:
- Vitamins, medicines, and supplements
- Hot foods
- Cleaning supplies, paper products, and other household supplies.
- Hygiene items
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Countering Online Hate Speech
This 6 minute video from Teaching Tolerance, offers specific suggestions and strategies to interrupt and redirect online harassment.
Watch now.
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Sacred Strangers:
What the Bible's Outsiders
Can Teach Christians
By Nancy Haught. Leads readers through stories about people in the Scripture from different cultures, religions, genders, economic and social classes and offering insights to the sacred strangers in our own time.
Read more
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Sacred Resistance: A Practical Guide
to Christian Witness and Dissent
By Ginger Gaines-Cirelli. Addresses these questions, among others:
• When Christians see that something is wrong in our nation or community, how and when should we respond?
• When we see multiple instances of 'wrong', how do we choose which ones to address?
• How can pastors and other leaders faithfully take risks without violating relationships with the congregation or denomination?
• What historical, biblical, and theological safety nets can be relied on?
• How can we take care of ourselves and one another, so that our ministries and lives are sustained?
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Preaching as Resistance:
Voices of Hope, Justice, and Solidarity
Edited by Phil Snyder. A collection of sermons from diverse pastors across America, calling for radical change rooted in love, solidarity, and justice. Confronts the dangerous structures of authoritarianism and oppression and proclaims the transformation, possibility, and hope stirring in the gospel of Christ.
Read more.
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Silence Can Kill: Speaking Up to End Hunger and Make Our Economy Work for Everyone
By Arthur Simon. Addresses all people of good will, but especially religious people and Christians, who help through charity, but neglect to use the power of their citizenship to be advocates for the hungry. Urges them to speak and write to their members of Congress against hunger that condemns millions of people here and abroad to diminished lives and premature death.
Read more.
For more
Legislative Advocacy
resources,
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Whose Heritage?:
Public Symbols of the Confederacy
An updated edition of the 2016 report from the Southern Poverty Law Center that identifies 114 Confederate symbols that have been removed -- and the 1,747 that still stand, since the attack in 2015 that killed 9 black people at a Bible study meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Learn more.
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Emanuel: The Untold Story of the Victims and Survivors of the Charleston Church Shooting
A documentary that tells the story of the 2015 shooting of 9 members of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a white supremacist. The film weaves the history of race relations in Charleston, the significance and impact of Mother Emanuel Church, and the hope that somehow emerges in the aftermath. Featuring interviews with survivors and family members, it is a story of justice and faith, love and hate, and examines the healing power of forgiveness.
Watch the trailer.
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Schools of Solidarity:
Families and Catholic Social Teaching
By Mary Doyle Roche. Explains how families can resist dehumanizing elements of our culture (competitive consumption, wastefulness, violence, etc.) and transform the many arenas of daily life (homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, schools, and parishes), so that they honor the dignity of all people, especially the poor and vulnerable. Also offers questions and activities for discussion and reflection in conjunction with each of the major themes.
For more
Catholic Social Teaching
resources,
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Cornerstone Fund
A resource from the United Church of Christ, offers faith-based, socially-responsible investments to individuals, churches, & non-profit organizations of the United Church of Christ. Also provides low-cost financing options for local churches & ministries.
Learn more.
For more
Socially Responsible Investing
resources,
click here
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Important Dates This Month
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Individuals Honored This Month
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July 2nd
When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
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July 2nd
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice
but to do better.
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July 5th
The Gospel has to grow little feet.
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July 6th
Love is the absence of judgment.
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July 7th
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.
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July 12th
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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July 18th
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
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July 25th
Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, 'That's their business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong I was. I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.
Mamie Till, Emmett's mother
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39,000
visitors, from
123
countries.
with over
2,000
Resources including:
Films, Publications, Websites,
Facts & Figures, Prayers, Quotes,
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