Reframing Thanksgiving in Light of Life Experience
There’s a lot of discussion in the US these days about our national Thanksgiving holiday. Human beings have a long and rich history of giving thanks to God (or gods) for a bountiful harvest, so no one nation holds a monopoly on the idea, or how it is celebrated. Here...
Community, Not Communiformity
In this post, I’m concluding my short miniseries of reflections on unity and diversity, spawned in part by my attendance at a recent CAC conference. As I stated last week, diversity and love together form unity, because God’s love covers all that God has made, in...
Diversity Plus Love Equals Unity
Last month, I attended the final CONSPIRE conference offered online by the Center for Action and Contemplation. I’ve shared musings here from other CAC conferences I’ve attended in the past. I want to do so again, especially where I recognize how ideas I heard from...
Living through a Seismic Cultural Shift
Once in a while, I find myself stepping back and reflecting here on the very big picture and the very long view. I did that after the 2016 presidential election, and again when I made a commitment to racial equity work. The long-term, big-picture perspective can be...
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