Compassion: Toward a More Just Society

by Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson   What kind of society do we want to be? This is a question I ask audiences of undergraduate students, law school students, faith communities — everywhere I can. The top two answers I hear every time: compassionate and just.   In his Nobel lecture in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A great nation is a compassionate nation.” According to the Dalai Lama XIV, “Love…

Recapturing Religious Freedom

Two major events coincided, making this a big week in the fight for religious freedom in reproductive health, rights and justice. Federal judges handed down decisions in two separate cases preventing some people’s religious beliefs from blocking other people’s access to insurance coverage of birth control. And the decisions arrived within days of Religious Freedom…

#BelieveWomen

By Rev. Cari Jackson At age 14, I was raped. When I told my Mom what had happened and she called the police, and I felt raped again. Still reeling from the fear of being killed, still traumatized by being overpowered and my body forcibly entered, I felt violated again by the disbelief of the…