Category Archives: Reflections

Stations of the Cross 2024 – Palestine

I am confined and cannot escape; my eyes are dim with grief . . .You have taken from me friend and neighbor — darkness is my closest friend. (Psalm 88:9;18)What to say when one’s heart hits a wall as thick and cruel as the apartheid wall that snakes through much of Palestine. A wall of horror that stills the tongue because bearing witness to genocide and sitting with one’s own complicity leads to an awful silence. Gaza. Four miles by 25 miles, exactly the same size as Detroit. Imagine you Read more [...]

A Teacher’s Lament: Grief and Gun Violence Without End

We are addicted to gun violence in this country, and until we break the denial and come clean about who we are, we can expect to see more of the same. Read more [...]

Our Subversive Sister Promises That God’s Gonna Trouble the Water – Advent Week Four

Clearly, this is not the gentle women we sing about in church. Rather, this is the one who interrupts meetings at city hall, who is arrested for waging love, who refuses to stand down and shut up. The one whose bold voice cries out in the wilderness that everyone has a right to safe, clean, affordable water. Read more [...]

Rejoice! Joy is Like Water in the Desert: Advent Week Three

So, today we sing out with gladness and compose a litany of gratitude for the ways in which the Divine shows up on our doorstep in beautiful and unexpected ways. . . Read more [...]

From Downtown to the Desert, Voices Call Out for Water Justice: Advent Week Two

And so it is this year that voices once again cry out in the desert. Read more [...]

It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Advent Week One

Advent is all about active and engaged waiting. Waiting for justice to be born. Waiting for the arrival of a new heaven and earth where the yoke of oppression with be smashed and there will be water - clean, safe, affordable water for all who thirst. Read more [...]

Class During COVID – A Modest Proposal

I propose a moratorium on school as we know it until we can safely return to our classrooms. A year of Jubilee – a time of restoration and healing for our students, ourselves, and our planet. Let’s mobilize our teachers and move to a model of neighborhood-based schooling. Read more [...]

The Only Art I Know

I am not an artist,
but I practice the art of looking deeply and this I know: It is the water that connects us
in suffering and in struggle and in celebration. Read more [...]

Walls, Borders, and Militarism at the Border – Good Friday Meditations 2019 and 2020

The border is where we meet Christ crucified by the gods of greed and war. Read more [...]

Taught By the Trees – A Meditation on Radical Discipleship

We are divorced from our environment, immersed in a bread and circus culture of celebrity and sports, numbed by technology, eating the pigs' slop and calling it good. We are facing global destruction created in our own careless and dominating image. We are far from home. Read more [...]

Write Time for Peace

Musings on spirituality and social justice by Kim Redigan