Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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  • Celebrating the Death of Fossil Fuels at COP 30

    Celebrating the Death of Fossil Fuels at COP 30

    Also Posted on the Fossil Free UMC blog. On Saturday at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, 50,000 people “celebrated the death of fossil fuels” outside the United Nations climate summit. The “Great People’s March” and makeshift “Funeral for Fossil Fuels” was organized by civil society organizations and Indigenous Peoples groups from Brazil and beyond. Their demands included a fair phaseout…

  • Calming the Storms of Our Times

    Calming the Storms of Our Times

    Photo by Paul Jeffrey. Used by permission. Also posted on the website of Fossil Free UMC. I’m grateful to be working with the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement (including Fossil Free UMC and the California-Nevada Climate Justice Ministries Task Force), doing what we can and calling the United Methodist Church to urgent and meaningful climate…

  • Jesus and Immigrant Rights

    Jesus and Immigrant Rights

    Jesus and Immigrant Rights

  • 2. Two Crosses: A Divided Christianity

    Second Post in a Blog Series on the Christian Right This series of posts on The Christian Right includes excerpts from my new book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World. If you Contact me with the words “free chapter,” I will send you a free chapter of the book.…

  • Meet the Author Interview

    This “Meet the Author” interview with Sharon Delgado ran in the Grass Valley Union on June 28, 2022. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I am a spouse, lover, mother and auntie, grandmother, friend, and co-conspirator for a world of justice, peace, and the healing of creation. I’m a retired United Methodist pastor,…

  • Local Grandmothers Highlight Intergenerational Pipeline Struggle

    Local Grandmothers Highlight Intergenerational Pipeline Struggle

    In late May, I travelled to Minnesota by train with three other local grandmothers, Janie Kesselman, Shirley Osgood, and Joyce Banzhaf, to join a 31-member delegation of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations. Our purpose was to highlight the intergenerational nature of the struggle to stop construction of the Enbridge Line 3 dirty tar sands oil…

  • What to Do if there is an Attempted US Coup

    Progressive Christian Social Action What to Do if there is an Attempted US Coup We are people aligned with various local groups who are concerned that if President Donald Trump loses in the upcoming election he will refuse to concede power even if the results are clear. We are organizing locally, as are thousands of…

  • Car Rally Urges Release of Persons Detained by ICE

    Car rally urges release of persons detained by ICE Because justice requires action, I am sharing this article that I submitted to the Grass Valley Union last week, following a car rally that several of us participated in at the Yuba County Jail, the only remaining ICE detention center in Northern California.  Please take a…

  • “Poverty Amid Pandemic: The Moral Response to Covid 19”

    Progressive Christian Social Action Poverty Amid Pandemic: The Moral Response to Covid 19 The Rev. Dr. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign This post is the transcript of The Moral Response to Covid 19, an address given by The Rev. Dr. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign on April 9, 2020.  His address…

  • Resisting Banks that Fund Climate Change

    Progressive Christian Social Action   Resisting Banks that Fund Climate Change Re-posted here on United Methodist Insight e-magazine. On September 25, 2019, during the week of the Global Climate Strike, I participated in an action in San Francisco that focused on big banks, in solidarity with the millions of children, young people, and their allies…