On Love, Chaos and Julian of Norwich
God’s visions to her were not of condemnation, judgement or wrath. The visions were of God’s unfailing, unwavering and overwhelming love.
God’s visions to her were not of condemnation, judgement or wrath. The visions were of God’s unfailing, unwavering and overwhelming love.
One of my biggest lessons of 2020 is that our basic responsibilities in our roles as citizens, as family members, as people of faith, as artists and creatives, as activists, extend well beyond what we thought it meant. We have to…
But, I’m going to tell you a hard truth because I love you: Turning the calendar into New Year 2021 is not going to magically change or make things better. Life is just hard.
The minor aches in my feet and numbness in my hands connected me to those ancestors who fought injustice so that I could vote. They had no idea who or what I would be in the year 2020. They knew only…
We ask the wrong questions. All the time. Maybe it’s the former journalist in me, but I always yearn for us to ask better questions. Lest you think I get it right all the time, I promise you I’ve learned this…
With nearly all of our beloved rituals upended by the coronavirus, it’s easy to slip into self-pity and take what we do in the ritual more seriously than why we do it in the first place.
One of my goals lately has been to keep myself uncomfortable. For white people like me, it is far too easy to tune out the suffering caused by hundreds of years of enslavement, segregation, and mass incarceration of Black people in…
***** Upcoming events! ***** The ideas in this blog are indebted to a number of people of color who have been writing, thinking, speaking and teaching about anti-racism much longer than I have. Here are a few links and resources that…
The universe seems to be calling us to repent in the truest sense of the word — to turn around, to change, to do things very, very differently than we were before.
This post is the third in a series exploring the practice of Drishti (focus on a particular point, traditionally in meditation or yoga poses). In light of the extremely heated political and social debate occurring around the nomination and confirmation of…
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