Dear Folks, The Veterans of Hope Project really needs your support! PLEASE CONSIDER A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TO THE ORGANIZATION. In 2016 we developed a new website www.veteransofhope.org with a wealth of resources about the links between spirituality and so...
Continue ReadingDuring WWII, the US government developed concentration camps in several western states in which they imprisoned thousands of Americans of Japanese descent. Photographer, Dorothea Lange (famous for her work on depression-era rural whites and migrant fam...
Continue ReadingDear Friends, Please consider supporting The Veterans of Hope Project on or after #GivingTuesday. We are happy to report that the Project is planning (along with the Iliff School of Theology and Riverside Church in New York) an event to commemorate the 50...
Continue ReadingEight days out from the recent presidential election, many folks are feeling the need for encouragement, even guidance from some of the elders of our country’s movements for social justice. There are a number of wonderful video interviews on ...
Continue ReadingIn the aftermath of the presidential election last week, the radio show On Being is re-broadcasting an interview with Vincent Harding from a few years ago. The title of the program, “Is America Possible?” comes from a long essay by Vincent f...
Continue ReadingIn this 7-minute interview, Jerry Tello, director of the National Compadres Project, talks about his grandmother’s prayers for him when he was a boy and the way our elders and ancestors bless us through their lineages of struggle and love. It’s...
Continue ReadingDear National Council of Elders Members and Washington, DC Launch Friends & Supporters, Please accept my thanks and deep gratitude for all that you did individually and collectively to make our September 12, 2012 Washington, DC Launch of the Greensbor...
Continue ReadingPlease see the note below recently posted on Facebook by Tyler’s sister, Jessica Starr. Tyler passed away last Wednesday, September 12, 2012. Cards can be sent to the Starr Family c/o Veterans of Hope Project, 2201 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80210....
Continue ReadingOn September 14, 15 and 16, at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance will perform the North American premier of Katherine Dunham’s extraordinary and powerful choreography “SOUTHLAND.” Special discount tickets are avai...
Continue ReadingThis article appeared in the March 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race th...
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