Last November, the Charlottesville Clergy Collective, a group of interfaith leaders, wanted to do something concrete to support voters during the election season. The concern was real. After what happened during the “summer of hate” in 2017, and with reports of possible voter intimidation on election day, the idea was simple: show up at voting …
I participated in supporting the clergy response against the alt-right rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017. Recently, my heart was cut to the quick when I reread Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Particularly convicting was the first of two confessions by King: “First, I must confess that over the past …
My sermonic reflection of the Kingdom of God, after the Ku Klux Klan came to Charlottesville on July 8, 2017 to protest the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.
Black History Month has taken up new meaning for me this year. In the past, I intellectually understood why we need to set aside time to remember, acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of black people and culture in the United States. However, for most of my life, I thought Black History Month was really more …
