Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 7
Last night I marched with thousands of people of all ages, ethnicities, and classes to the Port of Oakland. People were chanting, smiling, speaking about nonviolence, talking about change, playing Michael Jackson on stereo, and the list continues. What was most...
Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 3
“I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” “I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” “I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” 2 months ago I sat with a group of 40 South African teenage girls and we chanted this verse from Psalm 139: 14 over...
Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 1
Yesterday a brother named Troy Davis was executed for supposedly killing a police officer over 20 years ago. Though seven out of nine witnesses recanted their statements he was still executed (http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/cases/usa-troy-davis). Over the past...
