Guilt Deflates, but Responsibility Empowers

Guilt Deflates, but Responsibility Empowers Yesterday’s white nationalist rally in Washington, DC, showed these deplorable supremacists as far fewer and weaker than they’d promised. That’s a positive development, but only a small one on the much deeper and longer journey to confront racism and establish social justice in our country and our communities. Rev. Dr.…

Singing for Justice

By Rachel Dovek, RCRC Communications Intern In the past two weeks, I have marched in four separate political rallies in Washington, DC, each time representing communities of faith. On the day of each demonstration, I woke up with a purpose — to pray, to rally, to march and to fight injustice. Confronting Power Standing in…

Communal Loss of Reproductive Visions

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…

Mother Wit

Mother’s Day should not so much be about buying cards and gifts for mothers, as about paying forward the wisdom (or mother wit) we receive from mothers. To fully understand that invites us to explore two questions: (1) How do we define who is a mother? And (2) How can we identify what is true mother wisdom? Mother’s Day, as…