The evening after the clocks go back an hour isn’t the longest day of the year. For me, it only feels like it is. The light is super bright in the morning, lunchtime hits fast, and in the early afternoon, the shadows race in as if they’ve been held at bay all year and we’ve […]
Making peace with sinking sand
It’s been a good summer for spending half hours standing on a beach with no shoes. Back in July, while I was in San Diego for an annual conference, I managed to stop by the Pacific the day before I left. I hadn’t planned out the beach trip at all and was wildly overdressed. But […]
Being the Church
During a keynote in Holland, MI, last month, I made a passing comment about the Nones and the Dones—”the religiously unaffiliated and the religiously exhausted.” A remarkable article I read this week speaks to what “being the Church” means from the perspective of the Dones. Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a psychologist, theologian, professor, and author […]
Wedge politics
In all seriousness, as if the United States skipped abolition, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Era, and the last four decades of Reconstruction Part Deux, American Christians are debating whether White supremacists are the new outsider whom they’re compelled by grace to welcome. It’s an odd scenario to represent as merely hypothetical when one […]
Be proactive
I first logged onto the internet in 1998. That year I also stumbled across White supremacist networks, and I backed away from their dumpster fires as quickly as I could. I also kept the lessons they demonstrated for me. Effective organizing requires that people have direct access to information, regardless of their education status, and direct […]
Thanks for learning with me
The United States begins its summer season a little ahead of the solstice with Memorial Day weekend. The end of May also brings my year-long writing experiment to a close. Thank you so much for reading and learning with me since last May. I’ll be writing again in a few weeks. Subscribers will hear first what’s next […]
