I love this quote by Jen: 'When you recognize whiteness is actually poison—joy, liberation, connection, beauty, richness, and wholeness comes into your life. Once you've experienced something different, you don't go back. And you start saying, 'I want to get my people out, too.''

We need more white folks talking to white communities about antiracism.

👏🏾 Uprooting racism is white people's work, too 👏🏾

Dr. Jen Harvey has been doing this work for decades. Watch us discuss how we can nurture this movement👇🏾
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They’ll tell you to be a good immigrant. Put your head down, work hard. So you do. You make it, you are Valedictorian at a great school. Turns out, your hard work can only get you so far, because you’re still Muslim and brown and no amount of work can change that. Shame on USC.

Hey Chicago! Tonight is the night! Come talk with me about tears, climate grief and transformation.

7:00 p.m. CT at Rivers & Roads Café! I can't wait to see your faces.

'Enshrining children’s right to speak about what they are experiencing is essential to protecting their wellbeing, and a threat to people who wish abuse to remain hidden.'

~Benjamin Perry

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When I’m weeping profusely, I like to wipe the tears on my chest—notions that they might seep back to my heart and I can cherish them longer.

And oh what a book to be savored. Please get yourself a copy. The tenderness with which Lamya H writes makes me ache from knowing.

Okay Chicago! Coming for you next. I’m doing a book talk on climate grief and transformation Tues. at 7:00 p.m., then tears and queer theology @garrettseminary Thurs. at noon!

Come talk about crying with me and let’s build a gentler world ❤️❤️❤️ Signed copies available.

Talk about everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes. Feminist men, a word: learn to do all those things and DO them. Take the notes. Organize the group gift. Keep track of birthdays. Take the lunch order and call it in. DO a feminism, don’t just say it.

Translation: Our economic system is designed to ensure there is no time to appreciate the world around us.

'It is no accident that if you lay the map of slavery in jurisdictional conferences on top of the ones that won’t welcome LGBTQIA+ persons, they overlap.”

As Methodist General Conference nears, honored to interview Dr. Barry Bryant for Garrett Seminary
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'When people take away or distort other people's history, they make monsters of those people.' - Tiq Milan Middle Church

Trans siblings are not new. For millennia, folks have lived beyond a binary, wholly blessed and loved by God—created in the image of the One who made them.

✨ “Trans people are not new.” ✨

Thanks to Tiq Milan for a *beautiful* sermon Sunday Middle Church. Tell the history. Name the stories. Trans folks have a history, gender expansiveness is blessed, and ain’t going anywhere.

Sometimes Easter feels like peeking out from inside a tomb, and that’s okay too.

You are loved. Christ is risen. Jesus waits, dressed as a gardener, for as long as the tears still flow.

Hey Maine friends, come to Searsport Saturday April 6 for a beautiful talk about how tears give us greater clarity—even as they obscure our vision.

Dr. Aaron Rosen is a fabulous art critic and theologian, I couldn’t be more excited!

Let’s talk art, tears, and transformation ❤️

Need a beautiful conversation for your morning? 👇❤️🌈✨

What does it mean for queer people to claim spiritual authority and proclaim their own blessedness? How can religious professionals help folks work through religious trauma?

Explore this in a new conversation between Dr. Nolasco and Kevin Garcia 🪷 Spiritual Recovery Coach!

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“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” | Hafez

a blossom opens
we, forgiven to forget
a dome splits apart

Thrilled to join @revjacquilewis & Middle Church at this year’s Freedom Rising conference, featuring so many *incredible* presenters.

Learn more and get your ticket to join us at freedomrising.org!

'Acts of charity should be a supplement to our city’s migrant response, not a substitute.'

I'm so glad Middle Church & others offer love to our newest neighbors. But the mayor must do more, instead of blaming migrants for our problems.

Thoughts RNS 👇🏾
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