Our efforts have included a successful multi-year campaign restoring voting rights to thousands of Nebraskans who completed the terms of their sentence.
Since 2019, our work has included:
- In the Light of Justice: In partnership with the Benedictine Way community, the Task Force organized its inaugural event in the form of a six-hour vigil at Grace Church in Tecumseh (home to Nebraska’s death row) in November 2019.
- Book Discussions on the following titles: Just Mercy, The New Jim Crow, The Sun Does Shine, Forgive Everyone Everything, and Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal.
- Film Screenings of On the Row and Sing Sing
- Ecumenical World Day Against the Death Penalty Eucharist: World Day Against the Death Penalty is recognized each year on October 10 to support the call for the end of capital punishment. Ecumenical faith partners for this service included clergy from the Roman Catholic, Lutheran (ELCA), and United Methodist churches.
- Formation opportunities including:
- Write for Rights: letter-to-the-editor workshop
- Striving for Justice and Peace: a 6-week Epiphany Series focused on issues of legal reform and the abolition of the death penalty.
- Community Conversations on Corrections with Inspector General of Corrections, Doug Koebernick
- Testifier training and mock hearing workshop
- Session 12 presentations for Sacred Ground circles
- Advent Isaiah series
- Sacred Rights prayer vigil at Nebraska Capitol: in support of the restoration of voting rights for returning citizens with felony convictions
- Justice, and only Justice Episcopal Advocacy Day: 2023 and 2025 (held biannually)
Balancing the Scales of Justice 