"Seeds were sown by my ancestors and countless others so one day I would carry their spirit of grace and healing into prison. Intergenerational incarceration is a reality. So is intergenerational healing."
Jeremy Wilhelmi reflects on encouraging his children to accept all forms of gender and sexuality. Sometimes, this means letting them experience the world without commentary, he writes.
"Faces change but exploitative systems remain the same."
"But love – real love that speaks truth, works collectively for change, sacrifices while simultaneously honoring our own integrity – that’s life-changing; it offers clarity and stability."
Rev. Stephanie Sorge writes a love letter to her fellow clergywomen.
Rev. William E. W. Robinson wonders, how is it possible to be “in” the Spirit?
"Our disabled bodies do not make us heroes, nor are we tragedies, but we hold within us the truth of the human experience: pain and joy dwell together. We are Good Friday and Easter, tomb and resurrection."
Jenny McDevitt reflects that hope finds a way; that creation hasn’t given up on us yet, despite overwhelming rationale for doing so; that, while it may be too late to fix everything, we can still fix some things.
"There is a beauty when everything is in its correct place and we move from A to B. But that’s not how life works. I’m pretty sure that’s not how God works either."
"'There is always ‘a before’ that makes a beginning possible.' This afternoon, I charge you to re-member by recalling the “before” that makes this day possible."
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