I’m in Philadelphia this week with a few thousand organizers for the 29th annual Creating Change conference. The first time I attended, in Denver, CO, I co-presented on the intersections of climate change, faith, and sexual orientation and gender identity with Peterson Toscano, J Mase III, and Rev. Nancy Wilson. This time around, the conference […]
The Change We Want Is Not Inevitable
Today, several US states have observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The annual commemoration usually means anodyne reflections on love driving out hate, a corporate-friendly and mostly un-challenging King, and wholesale disregard of the fact that he died only because his countrymen and government considered him a threat. But hashtags like #MLKAlsoSaid and #ReclaimMLK are […]