Tag: Politics

  • Who Wants to Work For a World That’s Not Working With Us?

    Who Wants to Work For a World That’s Not Working With Us?

    “I hate school,” says my 7-year-old almost every single day. “Oh really?” I ask with curiosity. “What do you hate about it? Tell me more,” I encourage even as I am continuing to make her food for lunch and pack her things to send her to the very place that she has just told me…

  • Death Where Is Your Sting?

    Death Where Is Your Sting?

    As the world tossed and turned around me, I remained still. “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” The yelling and screaming. “Get his ass.” The world is upside down. Feet where heads should be. The sky and ground have switched places. “Can you plant seeds in the clouds? If so, what…

  • Can We Just Agree on What the Issue is?

    Two weeks before the election, I was blessed to participate in a Living Room Conversation with people from across the political spectrum to promote post-election peace. Wherever you are, I encourage you to take part in opportunities like this to help us fulfill the vision of a nation where liberty and justice for all is…

  • The Selfish Twins and a Mother’s Will – A Parable

    The Selfish Twins and a Mother’s Will – A Parable

    Twin brothers start talking out their issues at a family gathering just ahead of a reading of the will of their wise mother. But no sooner had they started talking then Brother A starts going off. Brother B keeps smiling and shaking his head possibly thinking, “Why did I get myself into this?” Still brother…

  • On Blacking In America – v. To offend others by existing

    The message written below is a response I wrote to someone with whom I was engaged in a dialogue after we both read the same blog post where pastor, John Pavlovitz, made distinctions between white Christians who say they were “embarrassed” by President Obama, those who simply disagreed with him, and those who basically are conscious…