Community/Connection

This Is What We Do

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We love in the face of deathIf we can do that, we can do anything During the early days of COVID, there were stories abounding about how we could hear the birds again, since traffic noise was down. How clean the streets were. How the water was clearer. I wrote… Read More »This Is What We Do

Blessing of the Ballots

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As Christians, we are ordinary people living in not so ordinary times. And as always, we are called to extraordinary action. Voting is one such action, particularly when there are many obstacles to voting intentionally placed in the paths of many people, especially people of color. This brief ritual is… Read More »Blessing of the Ballots

Beloved Community

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There is something of life in beloved communities of hope and hard work. They help us recognize life still real beneath parched, empty grasses,     even as we stand in the wind-kicked barren dust, the dirt blowing over bare hills. “Beloved Community” is a term that has become dangerously close… Read More »Beloved Community