Religious leaders are urging Salt Lake City and county to finish housing plan before a state law closes 1,100-bed shelter
10/16/2017 01:05:31 PM
"Nearly three-dozen religious leaders are urging the city to complete its affordable housing plans and ensure the region has hundreds of units available to low-income residents before the downtown homeless shelter is closed by July 2019.
The collection of ministers delivered a letter Monday to Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, saying hundreds of people could be left with nowhere to go if deadlines are missed for constructing new affordable-housing units."
Commentary: Utah clergy respond to Nashville statement
09/12/2017 01:13:50 PM
"We each celebrate that all people are created in the image of God and that the diversity seen in the broad spectrum of sexualities reflects a diversity inherent in God’s creation. We rejoice in unions that honor God’s greatest gift of love, regardless of the orientation of the parties involved, and we see absolutely no inconsistencies with either tradition or scripture in accepting LGBTQ people as God made them."
Utahns rally to condemn white nationalist violence in Virginia
08/14/2017 01:02:00 PM
"Rabbi Ilana Schwartzman of Salt Lake's Congregation Kol Ami said she graduated from the University of Virginia 16 years ago and is descended from Jews who escaped Nazi Germany. She has a 3-month-old daughter, and the violence nearly 2,000 miles away on Saturday made her too afraid to bring the baby to her speech Monday night, she said."
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686810/Utahns-rally-to-condemn-Charlottesville-violence.html
Religious, community leaders dedicate Utah's first hospice for the homeless
05/11/2017 01:00:52 PM
"Rabbi Frederick Wenger of Kol Ami promised that those who volunteer at this hospice sanctuary will feel God dwell with them, citing others who were blessed for building the original tabernacle and sanctuary in Exodus."
Utah faith leaders call for "compassion, civility" amid controversy over homelessness
04/13/2017 12:59:46 PM
"SALT LAKE CITY — Amid continuous and at times fierce contention over state, city and county efforts to overhaul the state's troubled homeless services system, Utah faith leaders Thursday issued a joint statement calling for "compassion and civility."
"The depth and strength of a community’s character can be measured by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens," according to the statement issued by the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable."
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