Jane R's blog since 2007: words and images on matters spiritual, socio-economic, theological, cultural, feline, and more.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
The New Sanctuary Movement
The Simple Village Organist's church has become a sanctuary in the New Sanctuary Movement. Blessings on them and on those whom they shelter. There is a link to the New Sanctuary Movement's website in SVO's post.
For a glimpse of the "old" Sanctuary Movement, have a look at:
A moving (2001, National Catholic Reporter)
obituary to movement co-founder Jim Corbett, a Quaker. His co-founders were a Presbyterian minister and a Catholic priest, so the movement was ecumenical from the start. In fact, it was interfaith, as is the New Sanctuary Movement. *
And another moving story (from 2002, Tucson Weekly), that of Luisa Orellana, who fled El Salvador to the U.S. over two decades ago with her family and lived in a church basement in Spokane.
* Recent sermon by rabbi Laurie Coskey, in Spanish!
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