Shining Like the Sun – May 17, 2021
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking […]
Defining Alternative Standards – Mar. 24, 2021
“If the terms of success as defined by the standards of ruling groups within white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are the only standards that exist, then assimilation is indeed necessary. But they are not. Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members […]
The Oppressor Within – Mar. 23, 2021
“I understand that in many places of the world oppressed and oppressor share the same color. I understand that right here in this room, oppressed and oppressor share the same gender. Right now, as I speak, a man who is himself victimized, wounded, hurt by racism and class exploitation is actively dominating a woman in […]
Make Ours a Beautiful Rage – Mar. 8, 2021
“God of Holy Rage,Too often we fear that to allow for anger is to become less like You. Let us meet the God of the prophets. You, who tells the truth. You, who holds fury at injustice. Help us to remember that You, in embodied anger, flipped the temple tables at the site of injustice […]
