A group of leading musicians announced their support today for a campaign calling on Village Voice Media to shut down the Adult section of its Web site Backpage.com where children and teens have been advertised by others for commercial sex.

John Mailer, son of Norman Mailer, joins 80,000 supporters of campaign on Change.org to ban sex ads that may feature minors on Village Voice-owned Backpage.com

Read a statement from The Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson on recent firebomb attacks in Queens.

The current news cycle is timely and compelling content for your weekly message, blog or sermon. You can enter the space that's on your community's hearts and minds and go deeper into your religious tradition by exploring what's news. For example, as Occupy Wall Street continues to bring economic justice to the fore, watch how these two faith leaders (and fellow Auburn Media Trainees) utilize the Occupy moment to talk about their religious values.

This October Auburn is tracking the news and information that your community needs to trouble the waters and heal the world. We’ll tell you how to join the Groundswell, a new multifaith voice for justice and social action. Also, resources for October’s Reformation Sunday and All Saints Day and an important upcoming television series to have on your radar. All this and more on the Auburn Web site.

On September 15, 2001, I received an email from my close friend and Stanford classmate Valarie Kaur, an email that would launch us both into a whirlwind over the subsequent decade .. A Sikh man in Arizona had just been shot. His name was Balbir Singh Sodhi, he owned a gas station in Mesa, and someone drove up and shot him because he was wearing a turban on his head and they thought that made him a terrorist. 

Thousands of people across the nation honored the tenth anniversary of 9/11 with vigils, film screenings, and service projects with a shared vision to overcome fear and hatred. Through community-based events held in synagogues, churches, mosques, community centers, and public parks, people all over the U.S. joined together to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 through remembrance and renewal. Groundswell, a new multifaith voice for justice and social action, connected people across the U.S. to stand together against anti-Muslim bigotry on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

This September Auburn is tracking the news and information that your community needs to trouble the waters and heal the world. We’ll tell you how to join the Groundswell, a new multifaith voice for justice and social action. Also, resources for the 10th anniversary of September 11th and resources for the upcoming September Jewish High Holy Days. All this and more on the Auburn Web site.

Groundswell, a new multifaith voice for justice and social action, launched on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 p.m., with the panel, “Out of the Shadows of 9/11: Millennials, Moral Vision, and the Global Groundswell,” at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC, 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY. Watch video from this discussion.

You are invited to Out of the Shadows of 9/11: Millennials, Moral Vision and the Global Groundswell. Join Auburn Tuesday, September 6, 2011 from 7-9pm EST at the Jerome L.Greene Performance Space at WNYC. Or watch the event on your computer and join the Groundswell! Tune into the Auburn Web site to watch this compelling program that will give voice to a rising movement, and inform the roles that faith and morality bear in movement building - not only this fall, in next year's election cycle, but through this coming decade.