It’s not often you see a United Church of Christ minister on a Major League Baseball field. But on Oct. 1, the Rev. Ally Vertigan was standing in the outfield of Guaranteed Rate Field before the Chicago White Sox played…

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A safe and storm-resistant place to live and raise a family. That’s been a longtime dream for many of our nation’s farmworkers. On Nov. 10, in Immokalee, Fla., that dream begins to be realized, with the groundbreaking for the first building…

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Latinx members of the United Church of Christ and their allies have much to celebrate: Four new ministers, and another soon to be ordained. The first Latinx woman to become a Conference minister. A major assembly, or asemblea, coming on…

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The United Church of Christ, collaboratively, has now wiped out more than $71.2 million in medical debt in a little more than two years. Through a partnership with the New York-based nonprofit RIP Medical Debt, the church has bought up debt…

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Despite a global pandemic and a multitude of other barriers to voting access, the U.S. election in November of 2020 saw the greatest number of votes cast in a presidential election in over a century. In an almost immediate response…

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