Upcoming events:

MARCC 40^th Anniversary Celebration:
  Monday, Oct. 27 (5:00-7:00pm)

METRO CINCINNATI INTERFAITH YOUTH

Inspired by The Interfaith Youth Core Conference in Chicago in October of 2007, youth in Cincinnati decided to bring home what they learned - and Metro Cincinnati Interfaith Youth was created. Over the 2007-2008 school year, about twenty youth of different denominations, cultures, races, and parts of town met regularly to talk with each other about various topics, socialize, and do service projects to give back to the Greater Cincinnati Community. The group, overseen by the Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati and its coalition partners in faith, has even bigger and better plans for the future!

If you are interested in more information on Metro Cincinnati Interfaith Youth, we would love to talk to you and put you on the group's mailing list. Use the contact form below, with Metro Cincinnati Interfaith Youth in the comments box, or call the MARCC office at (513)721-4843.

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MARCC is…

A coalition of Judicatories.
By JUDICATORIES, we mean the local, decision-making bodies of national denominations.

Each of these Judicatories is a valid, autonomous body. MARCC is a Coalition, a way of enabling these 17 Jewish, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Muslim, and Protestant Judicatories to work together on a few, agreed-upon, local social Concerns to make life better for people in metropolitan Cincinnati.

In the language of sacred texts, the religious community can work on social problems in three ways:

• Prophetic (holding up the absolute standards of God or spiritual well being),
• Priestly (caring for each individual child),
• Sovereignty (or politically, choosing the best possible solution).

MARCC has been a self-conscious decision by Cincinnati Judicatories to work together in a sovereign or political style.

Cincinnati Judicatories have learned over the years that to be effective together, Judicatories need to work:

• on a few concerns,
• that are capable of local resolution,
• where there is a moral, religious concern, and
• where we can do our own research & fact-finding.
• We make major decisions by consensus of the member Judicatories. (If any one Judicatory says "No," the coalition of Judicatories does not work on it together.)
• We work on the concerns that are most important, urgent, and do able by the religious community.
• We try to work with decision makers when we can, and give them the credit.
• We try to leave the civic discourse at least a little better than we found it.

Through MARCC, Judicatories make decisions:

• every year, at Judicatories' Shared Planning Conference, about which 2 local social concerns to work on in the coming year,
• every month, at Delegates Council (by a consensus of Judicatories), about major involvements in these 2 Concerns, and
• every week, at Executive Board (1 representative from each Judicatory), about how, when, and with whom to work.

2008 Concerns:

• Public Education
• Collaborative Agreement / Justice Reform