rosa parks | in remembering and in hoping
Rosa Parks | February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005 On thoughts of Black History Month + “Rosa Parks” from Walter Brueggeman’s Prayers for a Privileged People djordan Pine Tree
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I remember the first time I watched Amazing Grace. I felt immediately proud and cowardly, feeling both as I resonated with humanity at its best and worst. Wilberforce looked the status quo in the...
View Articlelick the elevator, pregnant at VBS | weekly mash | 04.21.2012
Here they are! From Vacation Bible School pregnancies to edible elevators, from neurology in Pre-K to CEOs in gang recovery programs, here are the articles, thoughts, essays and ideas that I’ve been...
View Articlefrom a long line of rule-breakers
History is marked by those pushing into uncharted waters unexamined worlds and mostly unacceptable arenas where people who were not to be allowed accepted approved or appreciated were asked to...
View Articlemother’s day proclamation
In the culturally Christian environment of the south where the rules of who women should be and what they should do, mixed as strongly with who they should not be and what they should not do, I am...
View Article50 years later: on dreams, justice and imagination
Below is a collection of reposts from mosthopeful.com, posted today in honor of 50 years after MLK’s famous dream. What is your dream today, fifty years later? “IT’S DARK IN HERE” | REFLECTIONS ON MLK...
View Articlehuman beings
I would most definitely be lying if I said it happens every time. It most definitely does not happen every time. But when it’s not a season of dryness, it happens a lot. Today was one of those days....
View Articlesilence encourages the tormentor
“Are you German?” he asked as three friends stood beside him; two stood to his left, one to his right. “No. Of course I’m not,” I answered, realizing as the words came out of my mouth that being a...
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