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Love with Courage: August 2015
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Monday, August 24, 2015. Awakening to Enduring Racism. An exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry features a display of patterns found in nature: spirals, fractals, the golden mean, and Voronoi motifs. After seeing this visit, I began seeing similar designs everywhere. How was it that I hadn’t really noticed them until they were pointed out to me? The same goes for racial bias happening throughout our culture. Until Michelle Alexander published The New Jim. Shared with me the horrors of being...
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Love with Courage: Also Time for a Rainbow Flag
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Saturday, July 4, 2015. Also Time for a Rainbow Flag. On this Fourth of July weekend, I am waving not only an American flag but also a rainbow flag. I’m thinking about the over 20 couples I have stood with when they exchanged wedding vows but had no marriage certificate for me to sign, because they could not obtain one on account of their same gender. It wasn’t lost on me that on that very day, President Obama delivered the eulogy at the memorial service for Reverend Clementa Pinckney who, along wi...
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Love with Courage: March 2015
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015. What is "Love with Courage"? Love with Courage is a call to discover and experience our personal and collective power, an invitation to develop intentional public relationships with a wide range of people for the sake of discovering what calling and passion we share and then creating opportunities to embody and live out our shared calling. Love with Courage is a revolutionary call to wake up not only to the great challenges of our communities but how ordinary people- you and I-...
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Love with Courage: June 2015
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Thursday, June 25, 2015. An Opportunity for Deepening Relationship. In the wake of the Charleston shootings, interfaith and interracial gatherings have been held all over the country. Here in the Chicago area, the Leader’s Network, a group of pastors from the westside of. Chicago hosted a “Call to Unity.”. As I approached Dr. Marshall Hatch, the senior pastor of the host church, he warmly greeted me and thanked me for coming- and then he asked if I would speak. I accepted the invitation. It t...After Dr&...
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Love with Courage: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Environmental Stewardship and an Unprecedented Opportunity in Illinois. The best of advocacy work! I love the vision and mission of Faith in Place. Their vision: Faithful people caring for the earth. Their mission: Faith in Place inspires religious people of diverse faiths to care for the Earth through connection, advocacy, and connection. There’s only one thing that is required for this bill to become law: grassroots support. What can you do? People of faith and people of c...
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Love with Courage: April 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. A Time for Compassion - Both Charity and Justice-Making. What do Nepal, Baltimore, and the Vatican all have to do with each other? They are all in the headlines. But more than that they represent different faces of poverty, compelling us to consider the nature of compassion. You may be saying “What, the Vatican has a relationship with poverty? But it’s also personal. I know some people who live there. I met them when I visited over twenty years ago. I don’...This image part...
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Love with Courage: January 2015
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Black Lives Matter - How Disturbing We Must Say So. The North Miami Beach Police Department has been using mugshots of black men for target practice, according to the Washington Post. When confronted, the police chief said this was a common practice and initially refused to acknowledge any error in judgment. Is there any question that our wider culture needs to be reminded that "Black Lives Matter"? How this practice was carried out until public outcry is emblematic of a deeper...
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Love with Courage: Remembering: We Belong to One Another
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. Remembering: We Belong to One Another. In the wake of recent events, I find myself returning to the work of my favorite theologian, Howard Thurman. From the The Luminous Darkness. Howard Thurman lived out of a profound conviction that we human beings belong to one another. His conviction occupied his entire life. Thurman would become the founder of the first interracial, interdenominational church in America: The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples. We all participate in bot...
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Love with Courage: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. When There's Nothing Intelligent to Say. When my parents and I were having lunch, my mom shared that her father felt that my dad just didn’t see him or understand him. My dad responded, “I don’t know why he’d think that! 8221; So I explained the conversation I had with grandpa Carlson, that when he came to tears, my dad’s silence and looking away caused him anguish. My dad responded, “But there’s nothing intelligent to say.”. Intelligent to say. There's only the response, aff...
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Love with Courage: July 2015
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Getting Beyond Shame - Inner Work for Multicultural Engagement. If the new film Inside Out. Included a sixth feeling, it should be Shame. Shame controls so much of what we do- or don’t do. And in this era of waking up to far more systemic racism in our culture, the last thing that anybody wants to say or do is something that could be perceived as racist. And this shame inhibits so many of us from having honest conversations and getting real. This churning mass was clearly filled wi...
