rise up
We were sitting around a table spread with pads, pens and leftovers a few feet off of Beale Street in Memphis. We had a two-day staff retreat for Area Relief Ministries, and we were closing up our...
View Articlecalling out in the darkness
I sat this morning watching a video (below) that highlights the last five years of a homeless ministry that houses and feeds the homeless in churches every night of the winter months. My mind went...
View Articlein the middle of a meeting
we often find ourselves in meetings sitting around tables clicking keys on laptops and scribbles of doodle and words soon forgotten written on pads and scraps and notebooks we find ourselves in...
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In the middle of multiple meetings lately, either starting with coffee because it is far too early or in the morning, or starting with coffee because it is far too late in the evening, I find myself...
View Articlein the eyes
in the eyes the way we make it clear what we think about you whether we speak kindly or not in the tone the way we make it known if we think we are lucky to know you or if we think you are lucky to...
View Articlemy hands are tied
I looked down at his wrists, bound together with metal handcuffs as he moved his body toward the front of the police car obeying the silent index finger of the police officer. He had not made eye...
View Articlea faint sound of something
I could hear it our shoes making a shoddy moon on the fifteenth floor looking out over the city. I can always hear the other the sound of killing shooting, the ringing of it the sound of racism...
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