As I write this, it’s just under a month until the first phase of the Church’s Synod on the process of synodality is to begin. Dioceses and parishes around the world should be letting the baptized know of this, setting up listening sessions and targeting those who are on the margins of Church life and …
“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. “(1) And still happening today: mass incarceration, voter suppression, violations of Black bodies, especially prevalent in discriminatory health care practices and police brutality. And yet, when reparations are mentioned, that is the …
Handing on to you what was handed on to me What a two days it was! Last Thursday and Friday (Aug 5-6,2021), the Global Leadership Network[i] hosted its annual summit and Dana and I were in virtual attendance, each from computers in our own homes, linked in a Group Chat facilitated by my son, Chuck. …
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In the preface to Osheta Moore’s book, Dear White Peacemakers, she relates a story about the high school coach calling her biracial son the N word in school. Other high schoolers heard him say it so there was plenty of evidence that he’d done it. Osheta was angry beyond angry, and hurt. She determined that …
Last week Debbie wrote about different types of courage. As a short review, these are the things she said: Try courage: it’s just what it seems. This is the courage to try something for the first time, or the first time in a long time. Trust courage is the courage to hand over parts of …
