“This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.” Romans 6:19a New Living Translation (NLT).

A promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is our nation’s cornerstone—the seed from which the American Dream grew.

Individuals from around the country can join the effort for record turnout in the runoffs.

Housing is a critical need, especially during a pandemic. This is even more true for people returning from incarceration who are 10 times more likely to be homeless.

This Advent season Sisters and Brothers let us remember that anticipatory Joy. Let us remember that there is a Joy so powerful that it can make us fall to our knees.

Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

The Restorative Sentencing Act is a measure born out of the inspiration of a group of men confined at the Kewanee Life Skills Re-entry Center, located in Kewanee, Illinois. The measure started as a quest to abolish Truth-in-Sentencing laws. Please urge your legislators to support this Act.

The Justice and Witness Ministry of the Chicago Metropolitan Association of the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ has put together educational programs plus other resources.

We must breathe to keep our hearts beating and blood flowing. But, so many of life’s challenges threaten to or actually do suffocate us.

Community Renewal Society is essential to the eradication of systemic racism in the United States because we must breathe.

View the first in a series of animated videos about Cassandra's fight to get justice for Nickolas Lee, her husband who died after contracting COVID-19 in Cook County Jail.

Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America By CRS board member, Christopher D. Ringer

Just as God gave us the breath of life, we must express our gratitude by giving to the work that minister to the needs of others.

We are those whom God breathed on; who breathe because of God; and whose breath is continually being choked off. We are those who are suffocated by marginalization, degradation, dehumanized and demoralized due to the color of our skin.

Community Renewal Society congratulates President-elect Joseph Robinette (Joe) Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Devi Harris.

CRS welcomes Rev. Jason Carson Wilson as our Bayard Rustin Fellow.

When the city of Chicago rejected the vast majority of the recommendations of the Use of Force Working Group for reforming the policies of the Chicago Police Department, it once again chose to rely on the status quo rather than engage in meaningful reform.

It is said that peace is not the absence of conflict or strife, but the ability to cultivate calm in the midst of chaos. As a leader in the American civil rights movement, Thurman surely felt the chaos of his time, as we so acutely feel ours now.

“Try to think bigger than you ever have or had courage enough to do: that blackness is not where whiteness wanders off to die: but that it is like the dark matter between stars and galaxies in the Universe that ultimately holds it all together. Here it is.” —Alice Walker

Illinois incarcerates thousands of people like Jason every year—not because they're guilty of a crime but because they can't afford to pay a money bond.