Mar 17, 2022
“Voices like Verna’s […] remind us about our history in order to empower us for our future: voices that comfort us in our affliction and afflict us in our comfort … voices that call us to continue to ask of ourselves and each other: “What would it mean to actually follow Jesus?” as we work together to make...
Mar 11, 2022
“So, some temptations may be so culturally conditioned that they need to be named as not temptations to something bad at all. Others truly are harmful to ourselves and others … and .. they are still not referenda on who we are and our worthiness and lovability. They are signs of a deeper hunger that can be sated, a...
Mar 11, 2022
“This gift of the epiphany that there is a disjuncture between our outward and inward selves that doesn’t have to be this way, and the witness of the courage it takes not only to name but claim our truest identity, to love that truest identity, fully to live into that truest identity is part of the deep gift those...