This article is from the March 2017 issue of The Lookout newspaper. The Lookout is a social justice street newspaper published by the Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center. It is available throughout Chattanooga from distributors who are, who have been or who are at risk of experiencing homelessness. A suggested donation of $1 per […]
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Gathering Our Hope Around Us
These are the welcome remarks Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center Director Beth Foster gave at the Unity Group‘s MLKing Interfaith Celebration at the Justice and Peace Center on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Welcome to the Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center. We are so happy to have all of you here tonight to honor […]
It’s No Sin To Need Help
By Kali Meister, Mercy Junction Administrative Assistant It is no sin to need help. In fact, at some point in all of our lives we have required the assistance of friends, family, and our community. Crowd sourcing is a great way to reach out to specific communities and request necessary help. Carolyn Shaw-Chandler and her […]
A long, hot walk to keep the power on
By Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center Director Beth Foster It was only as we were leaving that we learned the woman, with her 6-week-old baby and 3-year-old child, had walked five miles in the 90-degree heat to meet us. Mercy Junction Council Member Maddie Nix and I had met her at EPB, the Chattanooga […]
What is Sacred Community?
What is sacred community? Galatians 3: 28-29 Preached at Renaissance Community Church by Rev. Brian Merritt 3/7/16 I grew up in a very conservative church and town in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is a place that prides itself in the simple life and that sometimes is equated with a simple minded ethic. I only knew an ethic […]
Without Honor
Sermon preached by Brian Merritt at Renaissance Presbyterian Church 1/31/16 Luke 4:14-30 I hear preachers who often extol their role as prophetic preachers. Then I listen to their preaching and wonder why my definition of the prophetic is so radically different than theirs. Am I just being contrary when I contend that many of the […]
Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center will hold Funeral Procession for the Uninsured
The Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center will hold a funeral procession for those who will be killed by Sen. Todd Gardenhire’s vote to deny health insurance to 280,000 Tennesseans — including 17,000 veterans who are not eligible for VA benefits. Gardenhire, who has state health insurance and who represents parts of Hamilton and Bradley […]
Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center at St. Andrews opens
Something new started in Chattanooga on Jan. 1, and the goal of that something new is simple. The goal is to change the world. The Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center at St. Andrews is devoted to supporting and building a movement of equality for all people and freedom for all of creation. At the […]
When God Is Digusted
A biblical idea of justice is often lost to us in our law and order society. Our society’s idea of justice is vastly different from the world of the Hebrew prophets and Amos from Tackoa. The ideal depiction of United States justice used to be that of lady justice or the greek goddess Themis. […]
Fighting For Community
Exodus 32:1-14 At church it may be a strange thing to ask the question, “What is community?” Yet, it is often the questions we think we have the most easy answer that make the most elusive results. We are constantly bombarded with various views by powerful interests in our society of what community can and […]
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