One of the reasons I thrive when working with Dr. Julie Todd is due to her understanding of the various ways in which we can express and...

There was an incident in some of my activism work this month that demonstrates some of the challenges from this week’s materials. A group...

This week, we engaged in an exercise from the podcast, https://www.healingjustice.org/podcast/41 Going through the exercises was...

Antisemitism, as a system of oppression that works in a cyclical way, is distinct in that ”the goal is not to crush [Jews], it’s to have...

Not long ago I was mourning the loss of decades of work and connections within my old community in NM. However, my past position as the...

Mia Mingus, once again, stabbed me in the heart with some of what Resmaa Menakem calls Clean Pain. In the video, What is Accountability,...

I recently went through my denominationally mandated psychological assessment. It was an intense process that lasted more than a month,...

Spring Quarter started with a mass shooting in Boulder. Eleven people died in the King Soopers. The day was filled with sirens, panicked...

Who am I? I am a goofy, loving, compassionate, intense, heretical, resilient, laughing, curious, patient, courageous, kind, joyful,...

I am a big believer in giving our bodies “a chance to make ideas tangible.” I began using Gendlin’s Focusing in 2008. It was a useful...

I love the idea of pivoting from “being the one holding the microphone to the one creating space for others to speak and strategize.”...

This last weekend, I attended our denominational regional assembly. There were a lot of good people engaged in good work, however, I...

My sense of my vocation is shifting from something for which I am completely responsible to a more expansive view that it is work I will...

One area that really resonated with me was Linda Sarsour’s call to “know your neighbors.” When I lived in New Mexico, I was very tied...

While I intellectually understand the issues and challenges of the cultural myth of meritocracy, I still find myself struggling with the...

I genuinely feel that there is no way to exist in this country without, in some way, perpetuating oppression. I am not saying it is...

One way that microaggressions shape interpersonal and institutional spaces is through perpetuating the system of oppression. Keeping the...

Dori Baker’s comment, “Six months into my first parish, I found church leadership to be soul-shrinking.” (Lewis, Williams, Baker, 2020,...

"Hope is a discipline." Dr. Rev. Willie Jennings Today the world watched as there was an insurrection within the United States. I spent a...

"We’re often told to pull ourselves together. But there’s far more value in pulling ourselves apart. This involves a spiritual...