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 […]
Reader Review 12: Systems and Progress
The Reader Review series was a 2014 experiment in rounding up of some of the most thoughtful or provocative articles and videos I came across online. I’m still deciding whether to continue it in 2015, but either way, this will be the last edition of the year. Thank you for reading along with me! Brentin Mock draws a […]
Watch Disruption and Listen to Climate Stew
If you have 53 minutes today or at any time this week, you have the time to watch 350.org’s film, Disruption. It’s captioned in English. “DISRUPTION” – a film by KELLY NYKS & JARED P. SCOTT from Watch Disruption on Vimeo. “Climate change exacerbates every kind of social injustice that faith communities have fought against for […]
