Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Interfaith Social Action as Religious Practice

This week, Honna Eichler, an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a staff member at Interfaith Worker Justice, reflects on the reasons interfaith social action is part of her religious practice.

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Monday, May 16, 2011

Love in the Long-Term: Community Service and Systemic Change

In his April 21 guest post about social action and the Eastern Orthodox Church, D. Vasilis Schairer stressed the importance of “the transformative relationship between two persons” in the Eastern Orthodox tradition of social action and philanthropy.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Honoree Spotlight: Worcester & Mayor O'Brien

This is the final installment of an ongoing spotlight series on honorees of the upcoming spring event of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA), Home For Good: Solutions Start Here. Each year MHSA honors people and agencies making outstanding contributions to ending homelessness in Massachusetts. If you’d like to meet the honorees in person and support the MHSA mission, click here for tickets to the event.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Home Again: Only a Home Ends Homelessness

This is the second installment of an ongoing spotlight series on honorees of the upcoming spring event of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA): Home For Good: Solutions Start Here. Each year MHSA honors people and agencies making outstanding contributions to ending homelessness in Massachusetts. For more information about Home for Good click here.

Click here to read this blog post on the new SAM blog at socialactionma.wordpress.com.