Small acts lead to great effects, and nothing that we do is wasted when we are committed to doing well.
REVIEW: How to Fight Racism
Working to bring our fellow human beings up to their full dignity as people who are endowed with full human, civil rights is a good thing for all of us,
THE TSAR’S LOCKET, by Ken Czech
Nations must ally themselves against external enemies, but what of enemies within?
Fieldnotes on Allyship: Now in Print
It is a truth universally acknowledged that America is centered on the success, promotion, pleasure, and whims of white people.
THE CHRISTMAS EVE PROMISE—Interview with Elyse Douglas
Do those people change history all that much as they live their little lives? We come and go like passing clouds.
Fieldnotes on Allyship is Launched!
Fieldnotes on Allyship is launched—an anthology of eighteen writers from three continents writing about allyship for the Black community.
THE CHRISTMAS EVE PROMISE, by Elyse Douglas
What if you could return to the past to correct a mistake in the present?
When Church Becomes the State
Sometimes we think that by making our country an explicitly religious one, we will solve our problems. But the results are always worse.
To My Evangelical Faith Family
To my white Evangelical family: You birthed me and raised me and gave me principles and sent me out into…
Making the Past the Past
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ~ Wm. Faulkner It is a difficult thing to think that…
The Confidence of Ignorance
It’s really sad when white guys don’t get it. There’s a sui generis difference between the experience of Black Americans…
REVIEW: Just Mercy
I got this book for Christmas, and it sat on my pile of “To Read” books because there were a…
REVIEW: So You Want to Talk about Race
So you want to write a review . . . I was initially reluctant to read this book by Ijeoma…
From Levittown to Black Lives Matter
We built the ground for protests when we broke ground for Levittown
My Life in Music: Day 10
Music is the color of life I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly…
My Life in Music: Day 9
To uncover the pain I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
My Life in Music: Day 8
To cover the soul I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
My Life in Music: Day 7
Awake, lyre and harp I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
My Life in Music: Day 6
The spinning world stops I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
My Life in Music: Day 5
The unawakened heart I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me. I…
My Life in Music: Day 4
Music is human connection I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
My Life in Music: Day 3
Music can move us I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
My Life in Music: Day 2
The envelop of emotion I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
My Life in Music: Day 1
Order and Beauty, Mixed I was given the task by a friend of choosing 10 songs that greatly influenced me.…
13 BILLION TO ONE, by Randy Rush
I was given an advance reader’s copy of the book 13 Billion to One, by Randy Rush, and asked to…
Interview with Jamie Lisa Forbes
I agreed to read and review Eden, by Jamie Lisa Forbes. I found the book fascinating and deep (you can…
EDEN, by Jamie Lisa Forbes
WHAT IS EDEN AND WHERE CAN WE FIND IT, we sometimes ask. A place of creation for some. A place…