Easter 5C – May 18
May 18, 2025Easter 5CJohn 13:31-35 | Looking for Love Opening Meditation"There will be no...
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Powers and Principalities
As a movement organizer and activist, I appreciate the clarity that emerges when communities...
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Following Jesus – the Revolutionary Storyteller – beyond Book Bans
A Reflection for Banned Books Week, September 22-28, 2024 Now there are also many other...
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Into the Fray
A few weeks ago, I sat in a Zoom room with about a dozen UCC pastors and lay leaders from...
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I Must Go: MLK’s Radical Commitment to Collective Liberation
Like many of us, I make a pilgrimage through the written works, sermons, and speeches of Rev....
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Stop Cop City Week of Prayer
Invitations to Solidarity with Atlanta Week of Action and Block Cop City Mass Nonviolent...
Read MoreDo Not Be Conformed to this Age or #DecolonizeIsNotAMetaphor
“We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.” – Franz...
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An Investment in Freedom: Join the Movement at General Synod 34
“I’m so tired of the UCC only focusing on racism when there are so many real issues out...
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What if the Spirit is a Breath?
February 23. March 13. May 25. Amaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. For many, the...
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Responding to the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: Transnational Solidarity or What Would Ruth Do?
It is difficult to hold the enormity of the tragedy that is unfolding in Turkey and Syria in...
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We Keep Us Safe: A New Year’s Resolution for the Body of Christ
One of the things I love about this time on the cusp of a new year is the plethora of year-end...
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Dreaming Toward Freedom: Abolition Visions of Love-Made-Flesh
Whenever I talk about contemporary abolition movements with people, especially prison and policing...
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What’s Race Got to Do with It? Considerations for the Antiracist Voter
If you’re like me, when you are discerning how you will vote on different ballot initiatives or...
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‘Do Not Forget the Things Your Eyes Have Seen’
Juneteenth, Hidden Histories, and the Distance between Emancipation to Freedom This year offers...
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Adaptability, Apocalypse and Afrophobia: What Omicron is Revealing
The language of apocalypse has accompanied the COVID-19 global pandemic from the beginning, as...
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Rittenhouse Verdict Responsive Litany
On Friday, November 19, 2021, Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all the charges with...
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