Hope Credit Union, D.C. Building Projects, Remembering Conrad Hoover

Text of this article is taken from Faith and Money Network‘s blogpost: “An Invitation to Anti-Racist Action: Moving Money to Hope Credit Union”https://faithandmoneynetwork.org/whats-happening/an-invitation-to-anti-racist-action-moving-money-to-hope-credit-union/ “In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and Faith and Money Network’s own reckoning with a commitment to racial equity, the organization has committed to moving money to Hope Credit […]

Gifts – Aug. 10, 2021

“A midrash tells us that “when the world was created God made everything a little bit incomplete. Rather than making bread grow right out of the earth, God made wheat grow so that we might bake it into bread. In this way we could become partners in completing the work of creation.” Recognition. Repetition. Reverence. […]

CallingsWithout Oars Book, 35 Years of Christ House, Bread of Life Fund, Jubilee Jobs and COVID-19, CoS Books Special + More

Callings – Winter 2020 The issue of Callings for this Winter is chock full of updates from around the community, starting off with a review of longtime CoS associate Wes Granberg-Michaelson’s new book Without Oars. Callings Editor Marjory Bankson then includes a note from Kayla about “Keeping Watch”, as well as Marjory’s own regular “Editor’s Corner” piece. We celebrate […]

Whitelaw Hotel “WaPo” Manna Feature

On February 18th The Washington Post featured an article about the historic African American Whitelaw Hotel, and efforts to restore it by Manna, Inc. and others. New Community Church Pastor Jim Dickerson, is quoted in the article, see below. “The effort to finance restoration of the Whitelaw was spearheaded by Manna, a nonprofit that builds […]