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I struggle with the word “calling.”

Hurricane Sandy hit the New York coastline in the fall of 2012 just four weeks after we started Sunday services for Forefront Brooklyn.

  Forefront Church is an interdenominational faith community in New York City, dedicated to cultivating a just and generous expression of the Christian faith. Learn more about Forefront here.  

“We weren’t trying to break the law. We were offering humanitarian assistance.”

People who survive cancer often call it a gift. It comes as a great disruption and forces a kind of personal reckoning. Something similar could be said about the election of Donald Trump for churches in America.

Let’s vow to protect environmental justice and the EPA, critical parts of Black history, past and present.

If you are a pastor, priest, or other Christian leader in the U.S., or if you are an active church member, the election of Donald Trump has changed your life and ministry, and not just a little, but a lot, and for the foreseeable future.  

We have this opportunity before us right now, perhaps in greater measure than it ever has been in the history of our world.

It is easy for those of us born after the Roe vs. Wade decision to forget that, eleven years before the ruling, upwards of five thousand women died from having illegal abortions. Distance from this era of a staggering reproductive health crisis must be treated with elation and caution.