Macky Alston’s Love Free or Die Takes Off at Sundance: Premiering Monday night at Sundance is Macky Alston’s new film Love Free or Die, which follows the historic and controversial rise of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Bishop. BTB caught up with Alston at a mass held at St. Luke’s Church on Sunday in Park City, where LGBT leaders showed up to support and discuss the film.
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NYC New Sanctuary Movement, with offices at Judson, receives Union Square Award The Union Square Awards believes that grassroots activism strengthens local communities. The Award recognizes organizations in New York City addressing a range of issues. Read more.
MONDAYS in the Garden Room The 12 Steps of Ecological Recovery - every week at 5:30 pm: Use the 12-step program to talk about living with ecological accountability and honesty in the modern world.
Judson Academy - 1st & 3rd of the month at 7:00 pm: Hear lectures and discussion with leading experts across topics and issues.
TUESDAYS in the Garden Room The New Sanctuary Movement of NYC - most weeks at 5:30 pm: Discuss strategy, actions and cases on immigration issues. Check judson.org/upcomingatjudson for meeting dates.
WEDNESDAYS in the Meeting Room Bailout Theater - 1st of the month at 7:00 pm: Enjoy a free potluck dinner (7:30 pm) and entertainment (8:00 pm) of music or dance. Potlucks are needed, but not required, to attend.
Followed by Adult Education at 7:00: Co-led by Meredith Kadet and Donna Schaper, this time of teaching and learning will also allow us the in gathering we believe we need in order to "go out well."
Second Helpings are lay-led activities giving extra ways of being in community. Do something with other Judson folks. Contact bethene.trexel (at) gmail.com to list your ideas for service, learning, fun, whatever. View listings for upcoming Second Helpings here.
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Multi-faith Christmas Service with Korean Neighbor Religions
On Sunday, December 18, 2011, a multi-faith gathering of Korean Neighbors celebrated special days from each of the religions: Buddha’s Birthday, the Day of Won Buddhism, Christmas, etc.
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What's @ Stake
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Visit Judson's Occupy Wall St page for total media coverage, photos and video.
Come to the first ever Occupy Town Square, on January 29th in WSP. This is a chance for the #OWS community to come together, not to make decisions or follow process, but just to find each other, to talk, to coordinate, and to recreate the spirit of Liberty Square. There will be think tanks, trainings, tourists, random conversations with friends and strangers in the line for lunch - everything except the tents. We hope this will be the first of many. facebook.com/occupytownsq
New York Review: What Future for Occupy Wall Street?
Michael Ellick: “When people enter a monastery, they don’t know why they’ve come. They are there to find out why they are there, why they were compelled to leave the other world. You figure it out together, you take a mike check, and this is how faith comes to you.” Read More.
Rev. Ellick presents Nativity Scene to Trinity Church
Rev. Schaper at December 17 OWS Day of Action
Take Back the Commons
Slideshow: Judson supports Re-Occupy Day of Action #D17
Senior Minister at Judson Memorial Church, Donna Schaper explains what she called the "edifice complex" some congregations have, and what Judson Church is offering to those without a space for worship.
Where Were You When They Crucified My Movement?
By Chris Hedges
The mainstream church, battered by declining numbers and a failure to defiantly condemn the crimes and cruelty of the corporate state, as well as a refusal to vigorously attack the charlatans of the Christian right, whose misuse of the Gospel to champion unfettered capitalism, bigotry and imperialism is heretical, has become a marginal force in the life of most Americans, especially the young. Read more.
Protestors urge Trinity to open property to encampment
By Sharon Sheridan
"Supported by members of the faith community, Occupy Wall Street is calling upon Trinity Episcopal Church, Wall Street, in New York to allow protestors to establish a winter camp at property it owns at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street, about a mile north of the movement’s original encampment at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan." Read more.
Churches help Occupy movement survive crackdown, winter
More than 1,400 faith leaders have pledged of solidarity with the movement.
By Josef Kuhn
"As Occupy camps nationwide deal with police crackdowns and the inevitable onset of winter, religious communities are stepping in with offers of shelter and solidarity." Read more.
Religion Dispatches: I Was Wrong About Occupy
The movement does need public space by Donna Schaper
"The occupiers edged toward the theological as they articulated a need for communal, inspirational face-to-face contact in which they could 'appear' to one another." Read more.
LA Times: Composer Philip Glass joins Occupy Lincoln Center protest
The title of Glass' opera, “Satyagraha,” means "Truth Force" in Sanskrit and is a term Gandhi used to describe his peaceful protest movement that inspired Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. Many of the signs and slogans equated Gandhi's words and tactics with the Occupy Wall Street effort. One protester called out to a group of well-dressed patrons: "What you just watched is happening now." Read more.
Washington Post: Churches help Occupy movement survive crackdowns, winter
By Josef Kuhn
“The eviction ... really shifts what happens here, and it really boomed the movement, because immediately there was this network in place that we’d developed of communities throughout New York that were willing to open up their doors and house the movement.” Read more.
Judson Memorial Church Gives Full Support to Occupy Wall Street Movement
By Sami K. Martin
Rev. Ellick has said, “Now more than ever, it is the responsibility of all people of faith to have faith in all people and to realize that the great spiritual work of our times is to restore our Democracy and the people’s voice in shaping the American Way.” Read more.
Occupy Movement: Christians have mixed reactions
By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post
As Occupy Movements across the country experience police raids and evictions from public parks, Christians remain divided in their support of the movement. Donna Schaper, senior minister for Judson Memorial Church in New York City, is supporting the cause, saying the “most important” appeal of the Occupy Wall Street movement is “the urgency it has for economic justice.” Read more.
Bill Curtails City Role in Deportations
Victory for NYC's immigrant population and allies. A special thanks to The New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC will end two decades of cooperation between the city jail system and federal immigration authorities (ICE). Read more.
Judsonista vs. Fashionista
Kenn Kidd's wonderful statement on why Judson is the perfect church for people who aren't. He asks for support, to continue and strengthen Judson's historic legacy. Read more.
"Occupy in Exile: Sacred Space is Everywhere,"Religion Dispatches, Nov 28, 2011 by Rev. Donna Schaper
If you want to find the Occupy Movement now, just go here: exile, diaspora, online, viral, on radio, at Thanksgiving tables, over coffee, in Los Angeles and Poughkeepsie and Riverside and more. Everybody wants to know where it is—and it is everywhere. Read more.
Day of Action:View photos from Foley Square, honoring 2 months at Occupy Wall St.
Petition for Occupy Wall St.
Sign our petition of people of faith or moral commitment who support the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement. We'll continue to collect signatories throughout the next few weeks of protests.
NY Times: Even in Churches, Protesters Can’t Escape Watch of Police
"At Judson...ministers believed that several plainclothes police officers had entered the hall where about 100 protesters were sheltering, but elected not to ask them who they were, believing that if they asked one person for identification, they would have to ask them all" Read more.
NY Times: Religious Groups Offer Help to Evicted Protesters
"[Judson Memorial Church] has pledged to permit up to 100 protesters to sleep in its cramped Parish Hall from Wednesday night through Saturday morning. The church ministers hope this move will help the demonstrators until they can set up camp either back in Zuccotti Park or elsewhere." Read more.
Press Release: Faith Leaders Condemn Raid on Occupy Wall Street
Demand Mayor Respect Right To Peaceful Protest
Faith leaders across New York reacted in shock to the mayor’s decision to dismantle the protest encampment at Zuccotti Park. In immediate response to the raid.... Read more.
You Can't Evict the Human Spirit
by Senior Minister Donna Schaper
"Why in the middle of the night? Why with so much police power? The good news is that this action, so unnecessary, will build the movement even more." Read more.
Watch the Golden Calf go to Wall St. for a Multifaith Service
Sign our petition of people of faith or moral commitment who support the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement. We'll continue to collect signatories throughout the next few weeks of protests.
Recent Articles & Devotionals
BE STILL by Donna Schaper
Around 9:15 one November morning I was driving on the Taconic Parkway in the mid-Hudson Valley. Out of nowhere a large 6-point buck appeared as I was driving in the passing lane, giving new meaning to the Christmas song about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer. Read More.
The New York Book Review cover with Judson's Golden Calf
Read The New York Book Review's analysis of Occupy Wall St that includes a cover with Judson's infamous Golden Calf! Read more.
"Occupy Wall Street, The Golden Calf and the New Idolatry, " The Huffington Post, October 11, 2011
"We brought the calf to Wall Street to confess our allegiance to false Gods and to announce that something was dying for us...What is dead is Wall Street's control of the conversation and us." Read more.
Devotional: "Sneaky Resumes" - Have you ever noticed yourself sneak yourself into a conversation? You don't really say what you are doing, you just do it. "When I was in Italy . . . Do you do this? Read more.
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"The occupiers edged toward the theological as they articulated a need for communal, inspirational face-to-face contact in which they could 'appear' to one another." 
police raids and evictions from public parks, Christians remain divided in their support of the movement. Donna Schaper, senior minister for Judson Memorial Church in New York City, is supporting the cause, saying the “most important” appeal of the Occupy Wall Street movement is “the urgency it has for economic justice.” 
