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Her friend was taken by ICE in Tacoma

Jesus For President: Poetry from nearly 20 years ago.

Jesus, Josh Johnson, and Comedy as Coping

Microaggressions, Emotional Health and Racial Justice.

UVA President Out Over DEI, Climate.gov goes dark, and Pray for Refugees

Joy Ann Reid & the United States of Amnesia

He passed away before we could be friends

The making of undocumented people into slaves.

When Jesus disarmed Peter, He disarmed us all.

USC Sets Up A Hotline, Trump Shuts One Down & Student Journalist Deported

Here is the Shortest Poem I Ever Wrote

Keep It Small: Deportations, Detainments, and Intimidation

Three Traps to Avoid after a Weekend of Protests, Assassinations, and the Beginning of Another War

Policy Violence, Florida Rejects Santa Ono & Tracking Trumps Higher Ed Agenda

I watched an elephant save a gazelle...

A poem I wrote about war...20 years ago

Our Grief Is Always Political

The question is how will you resist injustice not if you will or if you can.

Gen Z is Back at Church, Harvard’s Scientific Racism, and WOKE Oklahoma

Jesus, Justice and the University

I was going to be brave but...

Empathy isn't Toxic or Sinful, it is fruit of a Deep Relationship with Jesus

A Flotilla to Gaza, Greta Thunberg, and my daughter's heart for justice

More Students Taken by ICE, Cuts to DOE Blocked, and Do We Need Pastors?

"Bodies"

The US has never not been at war. Jesus followers must always work for peace.

On Being with Krista Tippett and the Power of Prayer with Roberta Bondi

Trump Tries to Punish Harvard, Supreme Court Blocks Christian Charter School, Commencement is Contentious at Columbia, NYU, CUNY, GW and more.

How to Grieve a Colonizer and How to Mourn the Complicit

Prayerful Pauses, Poetry and MealTrains are keeping me afloat

Why I try hard not to judge other people for not seeking justice like me.

Pride, Narcissism and Hurry: Which one is it for you?

Georgia Student Detained, NYU Withholds Diploma, and We Want to Hear From You

The Best Things I've Ever Written Are From When I Was a Kid

Wickedness, Justice and White Refugees from South Africa

I was not discipled to be a Dad, but I can learn to be a good one.

What are you going to do when ICE comes to your community?

Detained and Deported: What rights do international students have?

Palestine and Pakistan: Two Places in the News

This poet, professor and former Panera Employee is worth your time.

What Constitutional Rights Do Non-US Citizens Have?

Florida Campus Police & ICE, Columbia Activist Released from Detention, Chinese Students Deported, Detained and Afraid

I've Got Feelings. You Do, Too!

Talitha-Cumi: An unexpected lullaby for my girls this week.

Encampments are Back, “Go Blue” and Spartan Nation Mobilize for DEI, Protests after Mass Shooting at Florida State University

Booking

What did you hear from God during Lent, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday?

How are you marking Good Friday & Easter?

Urine in Muslim Prayer Room at NYU, $1Billion in Funding Lost, and What rights do International students have?

What is inspiring you this week?

Tracking the Impact of Project 2025, Mass Protests on April 5, and Pray for the Safety of the Detained, the Deported and Disappeared

What is keeping you up at night?

Thousands Detained, Hundreds Deported while Kent State, Brown and Tufts Stand Up while Columbia and Va. Tech stand down

50 More Schools under investigation, Princeton President Resists, and why was Khalil Moved to Louisiana?

ICE Arrests Mahmoud Khalil, Trump Targets 60 Universities, and Meditating on the Kingdom of God

Staying Grounded During Lent, Rising Inequality, Trump Threatens Campuses and Protesters

Boycotts Work, Ohio State and West Point Cut DEI, and the Connections between Censorship and Medicine

Cuts to Research Funding, Scholarship Programs and Poor Scholarship Won’t Stop Antisemitism

Churches Sue Trump, Wheaton Walks Back Congratulations, and the Violent Take it By Force

ICE Impersonators on Campus, Student Resistance to Nazis, and Jelani Cobb & Hasan Minhaj on Journalism

Trump's Executive Orders and its impact on Rutgers, Marquette, and Students who stood up for Gaza

Michelle Higgins, Bishop Budde and the Hopes and Fears in Higher Education in Trump's Second Term

Lectio 365, SPD Officer Fired for Killing Grad Student and What's the Point of Education?

Univ. of Iowa, No Colleges in Gaza, and a Prayer Meeting Before Inauguration

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