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 […]
What Renovating My Website Taught Me About Climate Change
You may have noticed some radical changes to this site in the last month. Yes, I’m renovating! Please excuse the dust. Last winter, I reviewed all of my web spaces, culled a few, downgraded others, and created an upgrade plan for this one. I literally drew out several new pages with fine-tip Sharpies and hand-lettered captions, set […]
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 […]