Dignity – July 4, 2022
“Perhaps the more superior we believe ourselves to be to creation, the less like God we become. But if we embrace shalom—the idea that everything is suspended in a delicate balance between the atoms that make me and the tree and this bird and the sky—if we embrace the beauty of all creatures, we find our […]
Holy Integrity – Mar. 12, 2021
“God who chose sides,Forgive us for idolizing the lukewarmth of the middle. We wear it as its own brand of superiority, believing it makes us virtuous and rational and above the fight. But Lord, help us to remember there are those things worth fighting for – that you are a God who does not only […]
The Same Capacity for Beauty – Mar. 11, 2021
“Maybe your anger has the same capacity for beauty as your happiness.” –Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies
Let Justice Roll Down – Mar. 10, 2021
“God of Ahmaud Arbery,Let justice roll down and destroy that which believes it has a right to hunt Black bodies like animals. Let it drown out every voice that is heard too often, every voice that justifies and enables systems of torture and violence and murder. And when its waters still, may we have the […]
