Category: writing

Hope

“Hope always breaks my heart. And yet hope always restores my soul.” One of the difficulties of any endeavor is … More

Prayer to Persephone

Today’s post is just poetry, this time from the sublime Edna St. Vincent Millay: Prayer to Persephone by Edna St. … More

I’m Just Here to Dance

I had an interesting question the other day: are Christians good? The subject came up because there is a defense … More

Trying Every Doorknob

What do I do about the things that I see that I think aren’t right? What do I do about the situations where injustice occurs, where oppression is maintained, where there is no room for the human and the person and the needs to be understood, much less addressed? So much is a giant system that is rolling on unchecked, and all I have are these small tools and weak commitments that are easily broken by adamant obstacles…

Waking Up White, Introduction

Debby Irving mentions her childhood in a privileged New England family. An interesting article was posted Thursday by the New … More

Feats of Clay

Our heroes are flawed. Our villains have moments of redemptive grace. We live in a complex world, where we cannot … More

Chief of Sinners

Recently I joined a group of people who are working diligently to expose, root out, combat, and overturn racism in … More