A Year of Favor

My STAR word for 2018 was “favor”. Noah is said to have found favor with God in the book of Genesis, before the ark project begins. And Mary, the young girl from Nazareth is greeted by a divine messenger and told “Greetings, favored one!…. You have found favor with God”. She goes on to (spoiler…

Remarks from Standing in Solidarity Rally

It was a bad week. So it is good for us to gather together. There were two high profile shootings of men of color by police last week–Alton Sterling and Philando Castile–one in Baton Rouge and one in the Minneapolis suburbs. There were two other similar deaths that didn’t get much news at all. They…