Rose For The Heart
Aching today. Visiting these lovelies at the Botanic before trying to get a little work done. Maybe they will help your heart too.
Remembering Dr. Vincent Harding
Today is the 3rd anniversary of Dr. Vincent Harding’s passing. I was humbled and honored to be asked to preach at a service in his honor at Iliff School of Theology this week, organized with immense love and care by the National Association of Pan-African Students. My sermon, with the sacred texts that were read,… Continue reading Remembering Dr. Vincent Harding
Medicine Making
A few weeks ago I was on retreat in Crestone, CO. One of my favorite things to do is start herbal remedies in that sacred space, especially infused oils and honeys that can soak up the gorgeous sunlight in all the south-facing windows. Here’s what I started for you while I was there. You can… Continue reading Medicine Making
To Muck We Shall Return
Some of you may know I work at a goat farm every Wednesday. Last year on Ash Wednesday I wrote this reflection after working all afternoon. It still feels very true, at the end of another Ash Wednesday partially spent working at the farm. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ash Wednesday, 2016 I’m shoveling out… Continue reading To Muck We Shall Return
A Word for the Water
I was humbled and honored to be asked by an indigenous leader in Denver to co-organize a 24-hour prayer vigil in support of the Water Protectors at Standing Rock (see here as well). With intention we held the vigil over the 24 hours of the US “thanksgiving” holiday, a day that celebrates a myth that… Continue reading A Word for the Water
The Truth Will Set Us Free
My Dearest, Beloved White Folk ~ I see our dismay, our confusion, our anger, our fear, our grief. I share it. I feel it. I shook with weeping until early hours of the morning. I hear us. I hear our lament: Is this who we are? As a country? As a people? The hardest thing… Continue reading The Truth Will Set Us Free
But We Have Only Begun
Beginners Dedicated to the memory of Karen Silkwood and Eliot Gralla “From too much love of living, Hope and desire set free, Even the weariest river Winds somewhere to the sea—“ But we have only begun To love the earth. We have only begun To imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of… Continue reading But We Have Only Begun
Not Everything Is Lost
Everyone I know is feeling stress, anguish, anxiety at the tail end of this election season. Regardless of what happens tomorrow, we still have a struggle ahead for all of us to get free. Drink your rose and borage and yarrow, breathe, pray deeply down into your bones. We need all of us, deeply grounded… Continue reading Not Everything Is Lost
We Are Legion
I was invited to write for the Pastoral Is Political feature at the RevGalBlogPals website, and my first post went live this morning. It’s a deeper dive into something I said in my interview that I shared last week, regarding white people being Legion. Here’s an excerpt; you can read the rest here. “We are… Continue reading We Are Legion
FierceRev Interviewed
The Alumni Director at my seminary, the Iliff School of Theology, interviewed me a few weeks ago. I loved sitting down with her at our kitchen table with herbal tea and just talking. She asked me great questions, and I love that the interview she crafted includes lots of quotes, so you hear me as… Continue reading FierceRev Interviewed
FierceRev Remedies 