Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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Year: 2018

  • #MeToo–I Didn’t Tell Either

    Progressive Christian Social Action #MeToo—I Didn’t Tell Either. No one wants to tell about their own sexual assault, but I feel compelled to do so in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who is being viciously maligned for speaking out about being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh so many years ago. These…

  • Conflicting Worldviews at the Global Climate Action Summit

    Progressive Christian Social Action Conflicting Worldviews at the Global Climate Action Summit I’ve been back from San Francisco for a week now, and I’m still processing all that I learned and experienced at the Soil Not Oil Conference, faith-based workshops on climate change at Grace Cathedral, affinity group and spokes council meetings, and three demonstrations…

  • Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice

    Progressive Christian Social Action   Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice In this blog, Progressive Christian Social Action, I primarily address thinking Christians and other people of faith who seek a deeper relationship with God and who are open to responding to the great social and ecological issues of our day.  Most recently, I have…

  • Love the Immigrant as Yourself

    Progressive Christian Social Action Love the Immigrant as Yourself “you shall love the immigrant as yourself…” Leviticus 19: 34 As tears flow around the country and world for immigrant children who have been separated and incarcerated by the Trump Administration, support for the president’s harsh policies among white Evangelicals continues. Even politicians and TV news…

  • In Sacramento With the Poor People’s Campaign

    Progressive Christian Social Action In Sacramento With the Poor People’s Campaign For the past several weeks, I have been going to Sacramento on Mondays to join in the Poor People’s Campaign demonstrations at the California State Capitol. Similar demonstrations are taking place across the country at over thirty state capitols and in Washington, D.C. The…

  • The Spirituality of Resistance

    Progressive Christian Social Action The Spirituality of Resistance Sharon Delgado’s article, The Spirituality of Resistance, appears in the May 2018 issue of Sojourners Magazine.   It is a book review of Principalities in Particular:  A Practical Theology of the Powers that Be by Bill Wylie-Kellerman.    For decades, pastor, activist, and scholar Bill Wylie-Kellermann has kept alive…

  • Guest Post: We Will Not Be Controlled

      Progressive Christian Social Action Good Friday Guest Post by Mark Davies, see the original at One World House: We Will Not Be Controlled In our desire to leap past Good Friday to Easter, we tend to forget that Jesus was a human person. He felt pleasure and pain. He had hopes and fears. He had…

  • Never Again: Protest is Our Prayer

    Progressive Christian Social Action Never Again!  Protest is Our Prayer On this Monday of Holy Week, reflections on the events that led to the death of Jesus merge with events that are taking place today.  As in Jesus’ day, today’s ruling Powers are entrenched in control by domination and violence.  People who seek to change…

  • Lent: A Call to Resist

    Progressive Christian Social Action Lent:  A Call to Resist This post was published at the beginning of Lent last year, 2017, as “A Lenten Call to Resist.”  It is the first post of a Lenten series that offers a progressive Christian understanding of Jesus’ life, death, and post-death appearances.   The links to the other posts…

  • Climate Change-What Love Requires

    Progressive Christian Social Action Climate Change-What Love Requires This post is an excerpt from Love in a Time of Climate Change, published at the Evangelicals for Social Action website. It was love that brought me to this jail cell. – Sandra Steingraber When my granddaughter Nikayla was ten years old, climate change became real to her.…