Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie

(Warning: explicit/hateful language) Everyday, I get voice messages, texts, and emails from people just like this: people who reject Jesus and who follow Donald Trump instead as they embrace the false Gospel of white Christian nationalism. Jesus says, blessed are the peacemakers. Trump embraces war. Jesus says, blessed are the merciful. Trump rejects mercy. Jesus says whatever we do to the least o...

Remarks from Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie at the Portland Impeach and Remove Rally by Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie

Donald Trump incites bigotry, hatred and violence. Voicemails left by his supporters prove that point. Listen in.

Remarks from the Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie at the Citywide Interfaith Vigil of Prayer & Action to End Gun Violence & Overcome Hate & White Supremacy in Portland, Oregon.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie: All of us should be impatient with the slow pace of change, but frustration cannot lead to paralyzation. Hope dies when we stop seeking a better and more just world. Even in our darkest moments, hope can still exist if we recognize that “hope that helps us keep the faith, despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing.”

Remarks at Family Promise Shelter Dinner (Washington County, OR) by Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie, university chaplain and director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality at Pacific University.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie presents a lecture on early understandings of Christmas at the Pacific University PUB Night on December 15, 2018. Dr. Currie serves as university chaplain, director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality, and assistant professor of religious studies at Pacific University. Learn more at http://www.pacificu.edu/CPAS.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie reflects on Esther's work for justice, and how that spirit of liberation is needed today on the Supreme Court as allegations are considered against Brett Kavanaugh.

Marilyn Keller sings; Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie preaches at the Lift Every Voice Oregon Ban Assault Weapons rally. Couldn't make it? Sign the petition at: https://action.groundswell-mvmt.org/petitions/ban-assault-weapons-oregon

On Tuesday, Donald Trump will fulfill a Constitutional responsibility of his office by delivering the State of the Union Address before Congress. We can assume that, in Trump parlance, the president will assert that not only is the state of the Union strong but that it is better than under any president in the history of the Union. That would be incorrect.

We have waited too long. The cause of justice has yet to be fully joined. - remarks from Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie, director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality and university chaplain at Pacific University.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie gives the keynote address at the Bay Area's Saffron Stand's 8th Annual Homeless Workforce Conference. Dr. Currie, a United Church of Christ minister, is University Chaplain and Director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality at Pacific University in Oregon.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie argues Christians have an obligaion to be

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie talks about Christmas and resistance to evil in the age of Donald Trump.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie offers a reflection during a trip to Israel - Palestine with Chicago Theological Seminary from the top of Masada. (Photo credit: Tyler Tully)

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie talks about a Monday (11/23) rally at Pacific University to stand in solidarity with Lewis and Clark College after a black student was assaulted this weekend and racist messages were posted on social media. Racism must always be opposed. At Lewis and Clark. At Pacific. Everywhere. Views expressed here represent the perspectives of Dr. Currie and may not represent the official...

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie preached the "The Unity and Disunity of the Church Universal" at Ainsworth United Church of Christ in Portland in Portland on Sunday, Sept. 20th, and focused on Pope Francis' visit to the US and where people of faith from different traditions can find common ground.