Topic: Transformation

Faith with a Backbone – When Attention Becomes Action

Paying attention changes us, and changed people act differently. What happens when pluralism meets injustice and the difference between tolerance and complicity becomes too plain to avoid, too obvious to ignore? Can the moral courage of a community sustain social witness when it becomes faith in action? What’s the difference between urgency and anxiety, and … Continue reading Faith with a Backbone – When Attention Becomes Action

Find a Way to Be Grateful for It All

Keep your hands open – only the open hand can reach out to another in sympathy, or offer gratitude for generosity and connection.

Together, the open hands of grief and gratitude encourage us to use those open hands to grasp another’s gift of love, sympathy, generosity, strength, or courage.