Justice Salon

The Horn is a family-owned tea/coffee shop located on Nolensville Rd. and they serve authentic Somali chai and Somali street food (the best sambusas!). They sell their house-made chai mix and other treats (their dark chocolate bars!) in-store or online. 

Suraj is a feast for the senses! This lovely shop located in OneCity offers beautiful gift tins full of colorful and fragrant spices and tea blends—along with other specialty food items and gifts/accessories sure to please any foodie on your holiday gift list. 

Thistle Farms is the St. A’s community’s go-to for gifts like candles, room sprays, bath and body products and essential oil blends. 

The CCJ is a non-profit that supports a variety of social justice ministries and contemplative practices. The CCJ provides administrative and financial resources to individuals and groups that create opportunities for social and structural change.

Parnassus is for all the book lovers!

Able, located in The Nations, offers fashion with a mission!

The Nashville Blanket Project partners with local non-profits like Open Table to provide blankets for our neighbors in need. Each time they sell a blanket, they donate one. Their blankets are sold in many local shops, farmers‘ markets or online. 

Sage Refill Market near Belmont University offers eco-friendly home goods and personal goods. This shop is all about eliminating one use plastics and other landfill waste packaging—they offer unique local gifts for home and body.

Humphreys Street Coffee provides training and employment for at-risk youth in South Nashville—and they roast high quality coffee beans. Treat yourself (or those on your gift list) to gourmet coffee for the holidays—or choose from an array of their home goods in-store or online.

Support The Nashville Food Project by ordering your holiday dinner sides from them—they are accepting Thanksgiving pre-orders through November 18th. The NFP supports our Nashville neighbors in need with delicious and nutritious pre-made meals. 

Strings for Hope is a Nashville-based initiative offering beautiful recycled jewelry made by survivors of addiction, domestic violence and trafficking. 

EssenceTree is a small business based in Tennessee that offers luscious handmade bath and body products for men and women. You can find some of their products in Whole Foods Green Hills— or order online. Their small batch superfood body scrubs and sacred herbal bath salts are divine! 

Smart Art + Craft Supplies  is for the crafty folks who want to make their own gifts to give this holiday season. Smart Art provides employment for adults with intellectual disabilities—and they sell reused arts and crafts supplies at low cost. They carry so many things to create with—it’s fun to go and look at all of their latest supplies. 

Conversely, if you have art supplies to donate, they accept donations Tuesday-Sunday from 10-6. 

For online shopping, please check out unique gifts supporting global communities here:

Ten Thousand Villages, Handmade Palestine, Olive Branch Fair Trade

Anti-racism Curriculum

The Justice Salon is excited to invite folks to an anti-racism training with the Beloved Community Commission of The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. This event will be held on Saturday, January 11th at the CCJ from 9-4pm. A delicious lunch will be served. This training is free and open to the first 20 folks who sign up. Please sign up below.

Questions? kate@staugustineschapel.org

Sign up link: https://forms.gle/FGnAeQSeKE72McRK6

Thirty on the Third
The Justice Salon will host “Thirty on the Third” from 8:55 to 9:25 on the steps of Benton Chapel on the third Sunday of each month before church begins. Everyone is welcome. Join for coffee and treats and learn more about what the JS does and how you can get involved! justicesalon@staugustineschapel.org

Join our voice against so-called “Christian” nationalism!
We are supporting the Nashville-based Southern Christian Coalition, working through many local churches, to build a strong, unified voice to counter the falsehoods of hate in the Christian nationalist narrative and model our faith stance of love and inclusion. Here’s how to participate:

If you are on social media, please join the Facebook group: Southern Christian Coalition. This will connect you to simple, effective actions that you can do.

Then request an add to the related private organizing group Tennesseans Against Project 2025 by emailing justicesalon@staugustineschapel.org.

The Welcome Garden welcomes you!

The Welcome Garden is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm started in 2023 on the land of Doug and Anne Hardin in Goodlettsville, in collaboration with the Center for Contemplative Justice and the St A’s Justice Salon community.  Our desire is twofold; to grow local, organic produce for our community which stewards the land well and extend a place of welcome and part time employment to our newest immigrant neighbors in Nashville. In 2024, we hope to grow the CSA to 40 shares and will be walking alongside the immigrant community to develop a worker’s cooperative to strengthen our community building.