Does anyone else leave a session of newsfeed viewing these days feeling whiplashed? For me, watching all the recent back and forth on social media have been painful. In the months since the Corona virus lock down orders were put into place, the divisions that have always existed in this country just seem to be…
“If we go to the depths of anything, we will begin to knock upon something substantial, ‘real,’ and with a timeless quality to it. We will move from the starter kit of ‘belief’ to an actual inner knowing.” (Richard Rohr Falling Upward) Today I turn forty. And I want to let you in on a…
People all over the country are out marching. Peaceful protests demanding justice and change are happening everywhere. When I turn on the news and see people of all colors standing together my heart wants to leap out of my chest. There is something significant happening. Do you see it? Do you feel it? I know…
I have been so hesitant to “go there” with the issue of race within this blog and ironically have been even more hesitant to “go there” at this specific moment in time and in history. I’ll give you just a small sampling of the objections my inner critic has made to this detour: But there…
I have been sitting on this post for the last week. Really, I have been sitting on this post for the last few months. My heart has been stirred by issues of injustice my whole life, but it wasn’t until I took a “class” in seminary entitled “Christianity and the Problem of Racism” that I…
