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United Church of Christ General Minister and President/CEO, the Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson, has joined with several other national faith and civic leaders, including the Rev. William Barber, in lending her voice to a new campaign denouncing authoritarianism in the…

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This Halloween, the Salem United Church of Christ youth group in Alhambra, Illinois, will spend the weekend scaring up funds for their annual mission trips to volunteer for disaster recovery. For weeks, they have been working with church volunteers to…

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Ahead of next Tuesday’s Midterm Elections, United Church of Christ General Minister and President/CEO, the Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson shares that UCC congregations across the country will observe Vote Faithfully Sunday this coming weekend, on November 1. This is a…

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These days it is hard to decide what to believe. Misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation are rampant, with the spin doctors and content creators making it harder and harder to decipher what is true and what is false. Disinformation and malinformation…

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This report comes from the Rev. Jasmine C. Quinerly, chairperson of the United Church of Christ Board of Directors (UCCB). Quinerly has been an ordained minister of missions at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, in Houston, Texas for more…

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When Alexis Humphreys began working on a grassroots effort to confront Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis, Tennessee, she said it started with about 10 people. Now it’s more than 300 people, she said. Their story of fighting for…

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She was one of many who came forward to the communion table, taking with her two tiny cups brimming with grape juice and a handful of bread cubes back to the pew. There, a non-verbal, five-year-old squirmed in a stroller…

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The United Church of Christ, in collaboration with the Central Pacific Conference, has released a joint statement lifting up in prayer the families, friends, and communities in the wake of the tragic shooting in Bend, Oregon, and condemning yet another…

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Issues of safety and welcome have long been a topic of conversation in the United States. The days of racial segregation provided overt and legal signs that warned of potential dangers. Separate waiting rooms, water fountains and schools for Whites…

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With national midterm elections just weeks away — which are set to become the most expensive on record — voices are clamoring for attention from televisions and computer screens, billboards and mailboxes. Much of the messaging is intentionally crafted to…

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Now in the final months of 2026, both the United Church of Christ and the Values in Action Kindland teams want to keep the kindness campaign going. Together, both have spent this year building the United States of Kindness through…

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UCC General Minister and President, Karen Georgia Thompson issues a statement following Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's announcement that Nidal Malik Hasan's execution would be broadcast live.

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A Tent of Our own Making is a series of gatherings in the United Church of Christ where leaders across the UCC have been convened by the General Minister and President to talk about the diversity of the church, the…

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UCC News recorded a special, live edition of the Reporter’s Roundtable featuring some of the top stories we’ve produced in 2026 thus far, on Monday, October 12. We took a look at Citizens Bank’s decision to stop funding ICE detention…

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Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) and Yale Divinity School (YDS) have announced a proposed affiliation agreement, which they say is “grounded in shared commitments to theological education, public leadership, and communities dedicated to justice. If approved by both institution’s boards and…

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A small, 140-year-old African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Yankton, South Dakota, was open to the public as a museum of the city’s African American history for the first time this summer. The simple brick Yankton AME Church has been…

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These days, it seems the lines are drawn in the sand with rigidity when it comes to political alliances and religious categories like progressive, liberal, moderate, evangelical and conservative. These words are bandied about in discussions about people and who…

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“Rooted, restored, and rising” was the theme of the 2026 meeting of the Antoinette Brown Society (ABS) in Raleigh, North Carolina the week of September 29. And the United Church of Christ clergywomxn gathered there lived up to that theme,…

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Leaders from across the United Church of Christ gathered at the National Ministries headquarters in Cleveland on Sept. 23 and 24 for a time of fellowship and intentional conversation — all with the goal of outlining a path forward for…

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There is much to be said about the church. The church was born from the teachings of Jesus who taught there was another way to live amid oppression and coopted spiritual values. According to the Biblical narratives, Jesus fed the…

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