Today marks six months since the tragedy of the Newtown shootings. In honoring the inherent worth and dignity of every individual, here is a list of all who died on that day: Charlotte Bacon Daniel Barden Rachel Davino Olivia Engel Josephine Gay Ana Marquez-Greene Dylan Hockley Dawn Hocksprung Madeleine Hsu Catherine Hubbard Chase Kowalski Jesse …
I originally wrote this in April, 2012, as a meditation for a class in seminary on the essential writings of Dr. Howard Thurman. With the trial of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin just about to start, I thought I would post it here. “I still believe that a person should apologize when …
I am not known to shy away from death (not yet, at least). Lest you forget or didn’t know, I am the foster parent (shhh, don’t tell DCF) who, when the cat hid away to die and was found twelve days later, I crawled under the porch, dragged the rotting corpse out, and showed it …
The press conference of official leaders – governor, police, U.S. attorney — rooted itself gratitude, not grievance or vengeance. It could have been otherwise. So many more who lost limb, could have lost life, were it not for those who ran toward ash and chaos. It could have been otherwise. The Twitter feeds and Facebook …