Travis Park UMC-Methodist Federation for Social Action

03/31/2024

12/11/2022

WHAT: Reconciling Ministries / Methodist Federation for Social Action Meeting
WHEN: Sunday, December 11, 11:00am
WHERE Travis Park Church, back of sanctuary

Tomorrow, December 11, at 11:00am is our monthly Reconciling Ministries / Methodist Federation for Social Action meeting. We will discuss ways to advocate for LGBTQ persons within the United Methodist Church and in the broader community. Also, we discuss wide-ranging social justice issues. Please bring your ideas about what we as a church can do for justice.

06/15/2022

Here is an interview with Anthony Ray Hinton, who was exonerated after being convicted for murder and sentenced to death row in Alabama. Bryan Stevenson was instrumental in getting him released.

Anthony Ray Hinton spent nearly 30 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.

05/08/2022

RMN / MFSA Meeting
Time: 11:15am
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2022
Location: Travis Park Church, Room 319
Reconciling Ministries, which works for LGBTQ equality, and MFSA, the Methodist Federation for Social Action, which works for social justice, will meet Sunday, May 8, at 11:15am in Room 319. NOTE that we will meet just a little later, since we are selling Pride Tee-Shirts in the foyer at the front desk. (Feel free to come by to help SELL shirts or to BUY a shirt.) Please attend our meeting in Room 319. We will be discussing our plans for Pride Parade but also what our response should be to threats to reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, and other issues.
If anyone wishes to buy a shirt, you may do so at any time by going to the Travis Park Church website. Shirts are fifteen dollars. If you wish to pay with cash or a check, come by the front desk in the foyer. (Yes, we can take credit cards, too!) We also accept donations that will help us buy shirts for others. The deadline for shirt orders is May 15!!

09/22/2021

Clinton Young was convicted in a 2001 Midland County murder in which he insists he was framed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said he was denied the right to a fair trial and an impartial judge.

07/22/2021

With decades of experience as a prosecutor and private practice attorney, former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald Kogan came to realize that the death penalty in Florida had to end. Watch the new video here:

In this honest, intimate portrait of the death penalty, former Florida Chief Justice Gerald Kogan came to see capital punishment as a system that must be abo...

07/22/2021

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/07/courage-desmond-tutu

Johannesburg’s Apartheid Museum has as its final exhibition space a room devoted to the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-2003). Set up in an attempt to model restorative justice rather than punishment for atrocities, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu as chair, its wor...

07/22/2021

A group.of Plowshares activists is now being sentenced for their roles in a 2018 protest action at a nuclear weapons storage site.

The US nuclear arsenal gobbles up massive resources for death that should be used for human life. For decades, Catholic activists have put their bodies on the line to insist we dismantle that arsenal.

07/20/2021

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=6151654808192968&id=233258850032623