Witness for Justice

For decades, the United States has normalized the brutal and dehumanizing treatment of incarcerated...

This week, the world passed a grim threshold. Over 3 million cases of coronavirus have been...

When the pandemic started escalating in the U.S., I thought without thinking of it through the lens...

In the past few weeks, it has become apparent that the present moment necessitates a war on...

How do we live in an Easter world when it still feels like Lent?I’m writing this at the start of...

In just over two months, coronavirus has turned the world upside down, forcing us to accept many...

I was last in my office on March 13th, not only because the United Church of Christ national office...

Coronavirus doesn’t discriminate, why should we?We are living through a scary time. All our lives...

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.” So God created...

Forgiveness is a Christian value. It is often an aspiration for anyone following Jesus’...

Recently, I went on a civil rights tour with my colleagues to Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama....

It is unlikely many of us have escaped the signs that we are in full-steam election-season mode,...

I believe that God is inviting us into visionary co-creation of worlds we do not yet know. I...

On February 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T University students who were deeply disturbed by...

As the Justice and Peace Policy Fellow, I’ve had a unique opportunity to expand my policy...

Several years ago, I had an opportunity to participate in an immersion program at the...

A few years ago, I posted something on my Facebook page that offended a friend from church. He...

My first overseas trip in the role of Associate General Minister for Wider Church Ministries was to...

I remember vividly the last presidential election. I was in Burlington attending my final year of...

I grew up in what many would call the traditional black church. Worship lasted hours, children were...