

World Suicide Prevention Day
It's World Suicide Prevention Day! Maybe it's weird to be upbeat about this day, but honestly I am just so glad that enough people have...


The Justice System Needs a New Name
"They are Jusef Antron Kevin Raymond and Korey. Those are their names and we need to KNOW them and SAY their names." (Ava DuVernay) Over...


Reflections on Sainthood
What a week. October 29th marked 10 years since my father's best friend Mark completed suicide. October 31st was Halloween of course and...


Here I Stand, I can do no other
I have been writing this blog post for about a month now.. There have been countless opportunities to write, starting with National...


Pick up your Cross
Reflection: This Labor Day weekend I preached in front of a congregation for the FIRST time. This was NOT college chapel full of people I...


In Flux
[It has been awhile since I blogged because this blog was originally created for a J-term class I created for myself on the Black Lives...


A Beginning
As my research and reading comes to an end for this J-term class I am a mixed bag of emotions. With the prayer "I believe, Lord, Help my...


Prison advocacy
I am so tempted to say today is the day the world ends.. But while half of me is in despair, the other half says rise up and overcome. We...


Mass Incarceration and for-profit prisons
In past posts I have discussed how our culture has come to the problem of mass incarceration and how it is a continuation of slavery. For...


Advocate to end police violence
Yesterday I blogged on the Black Lives Matter Movement and the police and I mentioned Shaun King's articles for the nydailynews. I...