San Diego Area Congregations for Change

07/05/2025

Fourth of July (near) the nation's capital. We ate a little.

06/18/2024

San Diego has had many great Social Justice Pastors and Ministers:

Pastor Timothy J.Winters.
Pastor Archie Robinson
Pastor George Walker Smith.
Pastor Charles Matthews
Pastor George McKinney.
Reverend George Stevens.
Pastor Ikenna Kokaye.
Pastor Walter Wells.
Pastor Reginald Gary.
Bishop Roy Dixon
Pastor J.Lee Hill
Pastor Booker T. Crenshaw
Pastor Ray Smith
Pastor Gerald Johnson
Pastor Adrian Ewing
Pastor Joseph Foxworth
Bishop Cornelius Bowser
Pastor Charles Dorsey
Pastor Steve Cooper
Pastor John Ringgold
Pastor Clyde Gaines
Pastor Willie Manley

Who did I miss?

Who are the great Social Justice Pastors and Spiritual leaders of San Diego's Black Community today?

07/05/2021

"BLACK LIVES MATTER" "DEFUND THE POLICE" "BIASED POLICING" "SDPD": The report commissioned by the San Diego Police Department shows what every other report has shown: THE SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS BIASED AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR, ESPECIALLY BLACK PEOPLE! What will it take to end bias in the SDPD? Our panel of local and national experts will discuss the issue and share the work they have been doing. Then it will be your turn. Join the conversation. Then join the work to end biased policing. Peace.

SDPD is biased! What will it take to fix the San Diego Police Department?

05/28/2021

The rich people want their slaves back.

"More than 20 Republican-led states have moved to end...federal benefits early to entice those workers back into the jobs market."

For decades, worker compensation has been stagnant, while corporate profits make up an ever-increasing share of the economy.

05/25/2020

Few will see this post, but anyway, I'm curious about the next move of the "Black" church community in the ongoing fight for Civil Rights for Black people. As the coronavirus pandemic sheds glaring light on how far behind Black people still are in this country, 66 years (read that as 3 generations) after Brown vs Board of Education, where is the front and center Spiritual leadership of the Black community?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil right...

06/22/2019

Today, at The Spot!

San Diego

01/21/2018

TODAY - Starting at 3:00 p.m.

The art of asking questions… Why should we ask questions and then listen?   Get information Plant ideas Solve Problems Get Cooperation Clarify instructions Get Commitment Mediate Communication…

11/27/2017

SACC has been idle for a while. It is very difficult to train pastors and churches who have very little understanding of civic engagement. It is not taught in most seminaries, and it usually does not fill the collection plate. But it does speak truth to power. If the Black and other oppressed people (of all shades of brown) are to ever be truly free, we most know the truth, and speak it. If you think you know a pastor who could help his or her community with training in civic engagement, please let me know. It isn't easy. It isn't glamorous. It IS hard work. It takes time and commitment.