Media & Resources
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OCCV updates the Media and Resources portion of our website weekly. We have developed sub-pages devoted to each of our issues (Health Care, Poverty, and the Environment), as well as a Commentary on Religion and Politics. You can also access our Document Archive with past articles featured on the OCCV website.
If you would like to share articles or commentary with the OCCV community, please send us an email, and we will post them as we are able.
OCCV in the News
Christians Shift Focus to Other Political Ideas
Nancy Haught writes about OCCV and its Executive Director: “Stephanie Tama-Sweet mixes religion and politics, serving it up with a twist. “No church,” the Portland woman tells a Christian college crowd, “regardless of how godly or wealthy or righteous it may be, can provide 117,000 children with health care.” Oregon’s need is too big for a single congregation, a denomination or even a whole faith tradition. The solution, she says, is advocacy.”
Putting faith into action for the common good; Oregonian, Sunday, November 4th, 2007
“I wish everybody in churches would have a letter-writing campaign to say it’s a moral outrage that 47 million Americans lack health care,” declared Ron Sider, the featured speaker at this early October workshop organized by the Oregon Center for Christian Values. “We need a revival!” he added — not of outward piety, but of Christians putting their faith to work for a more just society…
Leading Oregon organizations urge Congress to enact children’s health bill; Bend Weekly, December 5th, 2007
“The Christian community has always considered care for the sick to be a primary social duty,” said Courtney Dillard of the Oregon Center for Christian Values, a group consisting of mainline and evangelical Christians. “We are hopeful that Congress will be faithful to America’s children and enact SCHIP…”
Resources
– Call to Renewal - A faith-based movement to overcome poverty
– Bread for the World - Oregon
– Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
– Institute for Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins
– Restoring Eden - Christians for Environmental Stewardship
– Evangelical Environmental Network
– Jubilee USA Network - Oregon
– Organic Jesus - Imagining a Kingdom of God in an age of Less