From Your Minister
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One thing I do to relax is to read mystery novels. Read more →
From Your Minister
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At one of the garage sales I love to frequent I picked up a game called “Origins” with a subtitle—“The Game that Unlocks the Secret of Our Past.” Read more →
From Your Minister
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I was blessed with an optimistic, joyful disposition, which I inherited from my mother. Read more →
From Your Minister
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My physicist father drove me crazy. I would ask him what rainbows were made of, and by the time he had pontificated for 15 or 20 minutes I would be desperately bored, sorry I asked, squirming to get away. Read more →
From Your Minister
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When it comes to justice-makers on the front lines, one group of people often shows up—mothers. And when mothers truly know that, as the saying goes, “there’s no such thing as other people’s children,” I believe we have the power to accomplish anything. Read more →
From Your Minister
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Now that I’m an adult, I can see that my father was jealous of my older brother. An only child himself, he was used to having the full attention of his parents, and then his wife. Read more →
From Your Minister
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According to some folks, everything wrong in this world is because of one disobedient woman who listened to a snake. She just had to eat that apple, and then everything that was whole became broken. We were all doomed. Read more →
From Your Minister
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One of my favorite books as a kid was The Boxcar Children, in which four siblings, whose parents were simply and completely absent, took care of themselves and each other. Read more →
Secrets and Silence
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In her book On Lies, Secrets, and Silence one of the essential writings of 1970s feminism, Adrienne Rich wrote: “Whatever is unnamed…will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.” Read more →
I Had To Answer Love’s Call – Will You Answer It With Me?
It’s been two weeks since Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man, was shot in the head by the Minneapolis police. Multiple witnesses say he was handcuffed at the time of the shooting. When I first heard of this shooting, it was in a tweet from a prominent civil rights lawyer in Minneapolis, Jason Sole: “This might be the bullet that turns Minneapolis into Ferguson.”
