This month on Freedom Road, in the long shadow of heinous immigration policy, we are taking a breath and hitting pause on the cray-cray to celebrate the magic, the wisdom and the strength of Latina dragon-slayers! Come listen in as fierce theologian Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, organizer Alexia Salvatierra, community developer Lisa Trevino Cumins and advocate Jessica […]
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This isn’t Democracy!
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold the Trump administration’s Travel Ban on majority Muslim nations strikes at the heart of the very identity of our nation. The first settlers on New England shores fled religious persecution. Centuries later our nation’s founders built a firewall against the corruption of faith through government intrusion or prohibition. […]
Reflections from The Justice Ministry Pilgrimage
It’s a hot afternoon in Money, Mississippi, and I’m separated from my friends by a road, a railroad track, and a lot more. They stand at the edge of a field filled with tender corn stalks just beginning to peek through the soil. They look off into the distance, past fifty years of history, […]
#BlackGirlMagic
This month listen in and “Listen up!” as Lisa Sharon Harper offers this extended convo on #BlackGirlMagic! Sixty minutes simply could not hold the pearls dropped by guests: Rev. Traci Blackmon, United Church of Church Executive Minister of Justice and Local Ministries; Rev. Leslie Copeland-Tune, Director of Ecumenical Advocacy Days; and Rev. Sekinah Hamlin, […]
Libations for Emmett Till
Pilgrimage Reflections: The Gospel and the Politics of Race White gravel crunched under our feet. Body weight shifted to stabilize the self while beholding evidence of history that destabilized the world. We stood facing nascent corn stalks that stretched on for miles. Deep in this field once stood a four-bedroom house, the home of 64 […]
