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Were your grandparents and great grandparents and other ancestors’ slaves? If you can answer yes to this question, your voice is so needed at this time. If your answer is no, it’s time to be quiet, listen and learn, myself included. I have not sought to understand my African American friends and their enduring strength […]
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I have sat at the feet of white evangelical men my whole life. Most have pointed me to Jesus. Many have not. I have given my entire life for the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. My silencers have never been angry outlaws or the gay or transgender, the drug addicted or alcoholic, the homeless, […]
In these troubled times, it’s hard for us to conjure up peace. God left us reminders of the Spirit of peace all around us. Breathe it in. Breathe out love.
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I grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago. My neighborhood and schools were made up of black, white, and brown people. Some black people were violent, some white people were violent, and some brown people were violent. I witnessed with my own eyes a white male teacher physically assaults a young black woman in […]
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This side of Heaven, we will encounter many hardships. We will experience the ravages of sin, the aftershocks of Eden. We will hurt with gaping wounds, inflicted by those we love, betrayed by the ones that know us best. We will worry the world onto our wobbling shoulders, convinced that we can save it by […]
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I don’t cry easily. Really, I don’t. But this week, I have. The overwhelming sadness that sits right outside our doors is hard to fathom. Every morning I get pulled from a deep sleep into a waking up, and my thoughts go like this, “It’s light. It’s morning…. oh, we are still in the middle […]
