Farmers’ Almanac predicts a cold winter. I predict that the next several months will be key to thwarting authoritarianism in the United States. For me, some of that work will involve protests outside of ICE or other places where Philadelphians are taking strategic nonviolent action. At the last one I attended, my fingers got numb. [...]
First time seeing the book It’s hard to believe, but my launch party for Common Ground will happen two weeks from today! It’s been a long road, but the timing is perfect in a way I couldn’t possibly have planned (and wouldn’t have wished for). It turns out that years of visiting communities [...]
After the violence in Charlottesville, an African American friend of mine posted on Facebook that she’d had it with “spiritual white people.” I knew what she meant. As a white woman who has taught classes on spiritual discernment, racism, and social change strategy, I’d been thinking a lot about how to cultivate a spiritual [...]