The Line
A channel, a conduit, a portal, a pathway, a hollow bone — each carry something, allowing it to pass through. A line, a thread — they pull what is moving through me. Whose line am I holding? I begin with my own. I look just like my father, whose name I carry, and whose legacy I hold. My […]
Prophetic Action – Dec. 8, 2021
“On a muggy June morning in South Carolina, a young black woman named Bree Newsome scaled the thirty-foot flagpole outside the state capitol building and removed its Confederate flag. As police and protestors shouted at her from the ground, Newsome, just thirty years old and wearing a helmet and harness, shouted back, “In the name […]
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 […]
Something New Is Being Born
There is something very different about the demonstrations which have continued since George Floyd’s death. I notice the diversity and determination: white, black and brown; male, female and trans; young and middle-aged. It feels like Pentecost to me. Not only is this movement about ending police brutality and racial profiling, but I sense there is […]
