Apocalypse Detroit: “Behold, I Make All Things New!”
Since we are in Detroit, maybe we could imagine Church as water – fluid, fresh, flowing, prodigious. Indiscriminate, Unmanageable. Wild. Healing. Read more [...]
Category Archives: Talks
The Violence of White Silence: As Sick As Our Secrets
We who are white know that we do not need a college diploma to understand white silence - we are experts. Well-practiced pros. Masters of the art. Many of us are committed - often deeply and sincerely - to taking on the systems and structures of oppression and bringing down the powers and principalities, but just . . . don’t . . . make . . . us . . . share . . . our . . . own . . . stories. Read more [...]
Co-conspirators in the Faith that Does Justice: The Legacy of the Martyrs of El Salvador Inspiring Water Justice in Detroit
If we are found guilty of conspiracy, let it be for giving without counting the cost, for fighting without heeding the wounds, for toiling in the fields of justice without seeking for rest, in the manner of the martyrs of El Salvador. Read more [...]
Peacemaking: Journey of the Heart – WSU Center for Peace and Conflict Studies Peacemaker Awards Ceremony
But, things fall apart and so do people. Which means, if we’re lucky, we get to start over. And I was one of the lucky ones. Read more [...]
Tools for Times Like These
We in this program are a strange and broken tribe of lovers and truth seekers. Read more [...]
Mothers, Let’s Get Radical!
It was a terrible grace that rocked my universe to its core. It was one of those spiritual demarcation lines that calls for deep prayer and a strong seat belt. Read more [...]
Beauty Beneath the Brokenness: International Day of Peace Reflection
. . . to be an activist for peace and justice is to be a lover, a poet, an artist rather than an ideologue. That being an activist is, in fact, is as much a matter of seeing as doing. Read more [...]
How Long . . . Not Long: The Struggle Continues
. . . history demands that we roll up our sleeves and use all the love and courage and creativity we can muster during our short time on this earth to help bend this often stubborn and unyielding arc a little closer to justice. Read more [...]
Freedom (from fear) Tour
I think everyone who was part of Freedom Tour would agree that there was an internal journey we each experienced as a result of taking in so much power, so much story, so much courage forged in the fire of a red-hot faith that refused to sit down. Read more [...]
A Bigger Boat: Reflection on Luke 5:1-11
The net we had dropped yielded nothing, but by allowing ourselves to get caught up in a net cast by Someone other than ourselves, perhaps we were standing in solidarity with the people of Gaza in a way that was, in the long run, better than what we had planned. Read more [...]