A Simple Strategy
Those of us in more rural areas and small cities know how to put a potluck together. We know how to do service projects. We know how to make t-shirts and show up to a parade. We know it is fun and life-giving to do all of these!
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Gathering Wisdom
I started working on a farm when I was in the sixth grade. The farmers taught me many skills: driving all kinds of vehicles, maintaining equipment, pulling weeds, and how to take on a big job one hour at a time. I can drive a tractor, run a back hoe (not well!), operate a combine,…
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Meeting This Moment
When people of diverse, deeply held values know, work, and stand with each other people in the whole community feel better, deepen in trust, find their hope and strength again
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Can You Feel It?
Despair cannot be answered by anything other than loving, collective action. This action is a leap into trust, to almost quote Kierkegaard, that so many are taking today. Let’s feel our feelings, and then go together into our community. Remember that it is okay to take a break. And then remember that there are times when the real rest we need is to sweat for the common good with all our strong, sensitive siblings.
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Listening to the Sustainer Circle
We don’t just need to speak and hear those words. To do our small part to increase our trust in each other, we need to see it and participate in it.
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Responsibility of a Majority
When any minority religion or community’s rights or dignity are being denied, it the responsibility of the majority to stand with and behind them.
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The Power of Your Pen
This spring I encourage us to use the power of our pen and write a letter to the editor of our local paper about how we respect and celebrate our religious diversity and the constitutional rights that support them.
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Strategic Love
I have been thinking about our founding fathers, Rabbi Levine and Father Treacy, a lot over the last few years. They didn’t just feel love as a feeling – although both of them brought a lot of heart to their interfaith work together. They worked hard to discern real-world strategies to make love and respect…
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Kids These Days
Friends, there is hope. Not hope that challenging times are here but that we can walk through the oceans deep together with the kids these days.
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