Sharon Delgado

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Category: Limiting Corporate Power

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Resistance for the Long Haul

    Progressive Christian Social Action   Resistance for the Long Haul In this new year, I have been hearing people talk about how bad 2017 was (politically), and hoping that 2018 will be better. Many people who have not been active before have worked hard last year to resist the Trump Administration and the Republican agenda. …

  • Standing Rock Trial Update: Court Solidarity Success

    Progressive Christian Social Action Standing Rock Trial Update:  Court Solidarity Success One year ago today, I was arrested at Standing Rock Reservation with three local friends–Janie Kesselman, Shirley Osgood, and Christy Hanson–and over twenty-five other people at a Water Protectors’ action.  We were taken to several different North Dakota jails, then released on bail.  We all…

  • Beyond the Spectacles

    Progressive Christian Social Action   Beyond the Spectacles As the daily spectacles of the Trump Administration enthrall the public, Republicans continue to push their unjust and oppressive agenda.  For one thing, they are trying to repeal laws that keep the Internet free and accessible.  Today I made calls as part of the Internet-Wide Day of…

  • Standing Rock Victory and Trial Updates

    Progressive Christian Action Blog Standing Rock Victory and Trial Updates People who have supported the Standing Rock Sioux in their struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline are celebrating a victory, as we hear the news that a federal judge ruled on June 14 that the Army Corps of Engineers must review the permits that allowed…

  • Guest Post: UMC: Stop Investing in the Merchants of Doubt and Death!

    Progressive Christian Social Action Blog Guest Post from Mark Davies:  “United Methodist Church and Westpath, Stop Investing in the Merchants of Doubt and Death!” Today my blog features a guest post from Mark Y.A. Davies, the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics and Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility…

  • Rise to the Level of Love

    When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.”                                        Martin Luther King, Jr. As Inauguration Day approaches, I will be joining people in…

  • Preparing for Trial in North Dakota

    UPDATE:  My trial has been postponed until February or March, because there are so many court cases.  Shirley’s trial is now scheduled for Jan. 31, together with Janie and Christy’s.  Their trials could be postponed as well.   As the New Year approaches, four of us from Nevada County who were arrested in November during…