Tim DeChristopher, a member of First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, Utah, is the cofounder of Peaceful Uprising. He has been serving a two-year federal prison sentence for interfering with a government oil and gas lease auction in Utah in 2008. Upon his release to a halfway house as this issue was going to press, he will become First Unitarian Church’s director of social justice.
Learn more about Tim DeChristopher on UUA.org.
By Tim DeChristopher
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Activism is an act of faithTim DeChristopherOur interconnectedness makes the powerless powerful, says a young UU activist in prison for interrupting an oil and gas lease auction.