Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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  • Youth-Led Climate Actions

    Progressive Christian Social Action Youth-Led Climate Campaigns I often walk along a canal in the woods near my home.  One day, while walking there with my teenage granddaughters and two of their friends, our talk turned from light-hearted banter to the state of the planet.  Sixteen-year-old Darren said, “When I think of the future, it’s…

  • Global Climate Strike

    Progressive Christian Social Action Global Climate Strike In a recent article, climate leader Bill McKibben challenged adults to offer support to children and youth who face accelerating climate change by joining in upcoming Global Climate Strike actions. He asked, “On what kind of world do we expect 15-year-olds to tackle our biggest problems by themselves?”…

  • 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…

  • Hearts and Ashes

    Progressive Christian Social Action Hearts and Ashes Today is both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.  I usually observe both.  My mother Ruth’s birthday was on February 14, so I’ll be carrying her with me all day (as I often do). This evening, I’ll go with two of my granddaughters while…

  • Cross Country by Train

        As some of you know, last year I traveled cross county by train—not once, but twice.  The first time was to Washington DC, in September, to work with a team of United Methodists from around the world on updating the “Natural World” section of our denomination’s Social Principles.  The second time, I got…

  • 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…

  • Resurrection:  The Mind of Christ

    Progressive Christian Social Action Resurrection:  The Mind of Christ   This Easter season has been filled with paradox.  How can we understand and celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus when ignorant or ideologically-driven men in high places dominate public policy and endanger the world?  In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, who was supported…

  • Conventional Wisdom:  The Wisdom of this Age

    “Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish.”  1Corinthians 2:6 In this Lenten series I continue refuting the Christian Right’s view of the meaning of the cross and pointing to a different understanding of…

  • Standing Rock: Together We Rise

    Today at 4 p.m. we’ll be out in the rain, standing on the Broad Street Bridge in Nevada City, holding signs that say “Support the Standing Rock Sioux,” “No DAPL,” and “Water is Life.”   We are joining today’s worldwide day of emergency actions called by the Indigenous Coalition at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline…

  • Courage to Rise

    Today I post a poem by my love, Guari.  It is as relevant today as when he wrote it in 2001, during “Operation Enduring Freedom,” when the United States was bombing Iraq.  For me, this poem offers the hope of coming to terms with violence and oppression at both the outer, practical and the inner,…