I have a complicated relationship with Father’s Day (as I do with most Hallmark holidays). And I know I’m not alone here. Even for those of us who are lucky enough to have a father, partner, and/or partner with a…
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The Expulsion of Two Black Men from TN House Demand white People do the work of Holy Saturday
As a Christian Minister, it’s my job to preach that Easter is coming. That we live in an Easter world. That we are Easter people. But on Holy Saturday, two days after the unprecedented expulsion of Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson,…
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I met Chelsea Clinton at the launch of her second children’s book, She Persisted Around the World, at which time I told her about Raising Imagination. I told her my desire to create a fresh platform that engages social issues through…
Happy Tuesday! It’s our big reveal day….. Our exclusive interview is with Chelsea Clinton! Congratulations to Mary Margaret from Lexington, Kentucky for sleuthing the clues correctly. We picked Chelsea’s brain on everything from involving her young children in advocacy to…
This weekend we traveled to Kentucky to surprise my Mom with a retirement celebration after a stellar career as a Middle School English teacher. One of my sisters traveled with her baby, Malik, from Nairobi and we celebrated his 1st…
It finally stopped raining in NYC today after what seemed like a stretch of weeks & we spent most of the day outside remembering how magical this city is when Mother Nature shines. Tomorrow we’re headed to Albany with the…
“Imagine a world where love is the way. Imagine our homes and families where love is the way. Imagine neighborhoods & communities where love is the way. Imagine governments and nations where love is the way. Imagine business and commerce…
While I was 38 weeks pregnant with my third, I lead a two-week parenting group on “Creating a Culture of Care” in Midtown Manhattan. I drew heavily on the work of Harvard Psychologist Richard Weissbourd, who runs the Making Caring…
“The north of peacebuilding is best articulated as finding our way toward becoming and being local and global human communities characterized by respect, dignity, fairness, cooperation, and the nonviolent resolution of conflict. To understand this north, to read such a…
Mothers Day has always been a complicated holiday for me, and I’m in the lucky category of not only having a wonderful relationship with my own biological mother but am also honored to be mothering 3 kids. Yet Mother’s Day…