My reflections on how we can help end this manufactured and reversible crisis around SNAP/food assistance and the immorality around rising hunger.

I was honored to deliver the McClendon Scholars Lecture last Wednesday, October 22 on: “A Call for Moral Courage,” was focused on the moral courage and spiritual strength needed to work for social justice in these difficult times.

My message on this No Kings 2 day of protests across the country. Authoritarianism is an idolatry that we must resist and replace with the Beloved Community as an act of faith sojo.net/articles/opi...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on a critical case that could further gut the Voting Rights Act. Voting rights are essential to the health and legitimacy of our democracy. We must pray and act to defend the sacred freedom to vote for all Americans. My prayer and message today.

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I wrote for @sojo.net this week on the need for a surge of solidarity for our immigrant neighbors. Read my column at sojo.net/articles/opi...

Proud to march and protest today with the We are all Dc calling for self rule and an end to the occupation in DC. We must work ensure these authoritarian style tactics end here and don’t spread to other cities.

Grateful for the opportunity to participate in a liturgy of repentance today led by Creation Justice Ministries to kick off the Season of Creation, a series of prayer and ritual gatherings.

Shame on Congress for passing a rescission package that cuts $8 billion from lifesaving foreign aid! Loving our neighbors as ourselves applies not just to our neighbors down the street but also our neighbors around the world.

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I’m not letting Christian nationalists ruin my July 4th. Read my column for @sojo.net to find out why at sojo.net/articles/opi...

“It is a deeply immoral bill—but there is still time to do what’s right.” It’s time to flood the Capitol with your calls to stop the so-called “big, beautiful bill” before the Senate passes this travesty. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and get connected to your Senators’ offices.

“We can’t bomb our way to peace in the Middle East,” write Rose Marie Berger and Wes Granberg-Michaelson this week for @sojo.net. I hope their article will give you a helpful way to talk about everything that happened between the U.S., Israel, and Iran this month. Read it at sojo.net/articles/opi...

This week I wrote for @sojo.net about Juneteenth and why it can serve as a source of necessary, holy interruption. You can read my column here: sojo.net/articles/opi...

This week, I wrote for Sojourners about the incredibly harmful “Big, Beautiful Bill” that just passed the House and the urgent need to defeat it in the Senate. Call Congress today at 202-224-3121 and tell your Senators to vote against this immoral bill! Read more: sojo.net/articles/opi...

For my column this week, I wrote about Trump’s “anti-Christian bias” task force and what it reveals about the administration’s profound hypocrisies. Read it here: sojo.net/articles/opi...

Its great being back at my second home in Seattle, reconnecting with old friends, making new connections - and have a number of rich opportunities to cast my vision of the Beloved Community.