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Tyler Connoley Jesus told me to love my enemies, but Buddhism taught me how. 

Matt Fitzgerald The killer brutally murdered a teenaged girl. Twenty-one years later he was still awaiting execution.

Donna Schaper Most people can't stand criticism, much less persecution.

Tony Robinson "We can't do this . . . we don't have the money." 

Richard L. Floyd The affection and intimacy Jesus had for his disciples offers a model of friendship that is in contrast to much of what passes for friendship in our time.

Over the last couple of weeks I have engaged in civil disobedience in the Senate building on Capitol Hill while speaking out in opposition to the proposed revisions to our nation's health care laws.

The UCC was well represented at multifaith march in a Minneapolis neighborhood Thursday evening, where hundreds gathered to pray, mourn and demand justice for the people around the country killed by police, including 40-year old Justine Damond, fatally shot by a Minneapolis officer last weekend.

A 22 year old lesbian from Africa, escaping persecution and brutality at the hands of her father and her husband, was supported by her faith family at a Batavia, N.Y. federal detention center as she faced an immigration judge, who granted her asylum in the United States.