Executive Director of @faithinplace & @FIPactionfund working throughout IL, IN, and WI as @interfaithpower Affiliate | Mennonite minister | he/him
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Apr 12
I can’t live on someone else’s Easter. (sermon title I preached today on Doubting Thomas)
Have you ever had a season where faith had to become honest before it could become hopeful?
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Apr 12
Today’s sermon is live on Substack 🙏
A message for anyone needing hope and direction today.
Read here: briansauder.substack.com/p/i…
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Mar 18
Primary night in Illinois.
What kind of people, and what kind of nation, we will be by November?
If their strategy is fear, our strategy has to be turnout.
A prayer for candidates. A plan for the rest of us.
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Mar 11
You can wrap war in moral language.
You still can’t stop me from feeding somebody.
When wars begin, we Christians cry.
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Mar 4
Five-minute speech.
No voice.
$25k on the line.
So our Comms Director gave the pitch while I stood next to her holding ridiculous one-word placards.
Honestly? It worked.
More haunted harmonica energy here:
substack.com/home/post/p-189…
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Mar 3
I keep singing this old Mennonite hymn. First stanza: If the war goes on and the children die of hunger,
and the old men weep, for the young men are no more,
and the women learn how to dance without a partner,
who will keep the score?
Full lyrics:
danutm.wordpress.com/2011/04…
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Feb 25
If I had more energy, I’d write a counter State of the Union speech from the perspective of Amos. God will not bless a nation that “tramples the poor, the immigrant, and the outcast into the dust.”
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Feb 17
Rev. Jesse Jackson reminded us:
“If you are breathing polluted air and drinking contaminated water, your civil rights are being violated.”
A reflection on movement, memory, and democracy:
open.substack.com/pub/brians…
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Feb 17
I have asthma.
Repealing the Endangerment Finding is like tossing away your inhaler in the middle of an attack because you’re tired of the inconvenience.
I wrote about breath, power, and what we’re trading away.
The full piece is here:
open.substack.com/pub/brians…
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Feb 3
Just your regular reminder that immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens.
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18 Oct 2025
Hey @friedberg check out stats in Chicago. Same argument you’re making for San Francisco applies to Chicago. Fascinating you make the argument when it comes to your hometown…
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19 Mar 2025
Cool moment to see in @politico Illinois Playbook that @GovPritzker is visiting the farm @faithinplace co-founded - @SolaGratiaFarm as well as highlighting this important story w/ @WBEZ @__juanpab @ShiaKapos @grist Faith communities are essential leaders! wbez.org/environment/2025/03…
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Brian Sauder retweeted
17 Mar 2025
“Our communities did everything right—they planned, prepared and counted on this funding to make real change. Now, they are left with nothing but uncertainty,” stated Brian Sauder, CEO and President of Faith in Place
To read the full article, visit: wispolitics.com/2025/faith-i…
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Brian Sauder retweeted
18 Mar 2025
What a shame what's happening to our partners @faithinplace, but glad they are pushing back on the administration.
When we restrict funds to the most disenfranchised communities, we do a disservice to us all.
Faith in Place, a Chicago-based environmental non-profit, helps fund programs to plant more trees in Chicago and across Illinois. Now those programs are on pause because the federal government has frozen funds.
trib.al/SiTvMOD
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Faith in Place, a Chicago-based environmental non-profit, helps fund programs to plant more trees in Chicago and across Illinois. Now those programs are on pause because the federal government has frozen funds.
trib.al/SiTvMOD
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Brian Sauder retweeted
6 Dec 2024
December 6 is the anniversary of Hut’s martyr’s death in 1527.
In honor of the many conversations sparked this year by Hut’s life and thought, we are raffling off a cozy "Hans Hut Holiday Hat" to a supporter every week in December!
💚 🔗Donate today: bit.ly/3xbIq5x
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Brian Sauder retweeted
13 Dec 2024
We are celebrating 25 years of Faith in Place! 💚 Thank you for being a part of our journey!
Support our Work: bit.ly/25-years-of-fip
P.S.: We have a generous group of donors that will match up to $11,200 of every dollar you give before the year ends!
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