Profiles of two influential women in history for Women's History Month: Andrée de Jongh, who formed the Comet line to save Allied airmen, and Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to the US Cabinet.

Read this article to learn about a National Day of Racial Healing celebration and healing circles hosted by Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Greater Chicago. Be sure to register for these events!

This year’s theme is Together, We Win! These questions can be used to guide conversation with your congregation after viewing the 2022 Annual Membership Assembly video. We would love to hear from you the thoughts and plans that came out of your discussion.

Today marks the 21st Anniversary of September 11, 2021, when we watched our nation come under one of the worst terrorist attacks in history. Yvonne V. Delk Theologian in Residence, Rev. Erica Williams shares her experience during this traumatic event and invites you to join her for Reflect, Act, Pray on September 20 via Zoom.

Some of you are familiar with the intelligent African tribe called the Maasai. These fearsome and mighty warriors have a tradition of greeting one another by asking: "Kasserian Ingera"...which means…"And how are the children?"

Community Renewal Society, as a member of the Chicago Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, share this statement condemning the mass shooting in Highland Park on July 4.

Executive Director, Rev. Dr. Waltrina Middleton, reflects on all the work we’ve been doing to advocate for social and economic justice and eliminate barriers of race and class over the past year.

The campaign to end permanent punishments on people with criminal records in Illinois

August is typically a time of excitement as the new school year begins. This year, that excitement is tempered with apprehension as school districts decide the best course of action for their students whether that be in-person or remote instruction, or a hybrid model.

Hybrid model. Sychronous learning. Pandemic pod. These words have quickly become the new normal when parents talk about school this fall.

How are you impacted by schools opening during this pandemic?

After just a few months of lock-down, why open up schools in the middle of a raging pandemic?

There are over 4,000 people incarcerated at the Cook County Jail and 3,000 people on staff—both are particularly vulnerable to contracting COVID-19.

A Just Harvest raises its voice with all who are mourning and demanding justice for Black men, women and trans siblings murdered by police who are sworn to serve and protect them.

Our member congregations are being creative in managing their worship services and connecting with their members during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of my favorite chants from the movement for Black Lives in Ferguson, MO was a call to “Get out of the house and into the streets!” or “Get out of the pews and into the streets!”

I'd wager that amidst the parades, days off from work (for many but not all), countless cookouts, and, of course, fireworks, most Americans don't think about how complex and complicated our Independence Day can be for many Americans to whom it never applied.

As we approach Father's day, bracing for that horrific statistic, “70% of black children are fatherless,” I urge our religious and congregational leaders to re-speak the narrative.

Pentecost is not only the longest season of the Christian liturgical calendar but one of the most prolific.

In the years prior to King’s assassination, his sights began to shift towards thinking how a true Beloved Community might be realized in his present world. The pathway to this concept rested in need to escalate the concerns of civil rights, to a need for human rights. The words of his sermons and writings would begin to challenge even more, daring to make claims that poor Blacks and Poor Whites had more in common with each other, than Poor Blacks had with Rich Blacks or Poor Whites had with Rich Whites. Despite a system that systematically proved otherwise, dismantling poverty, King exclaimed, was the key to removing the systems of racism, militarism, and economic injustice on America.