January 2022
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A Vision for Church-Based Justice Work
Back in the 1940s, a man by the name of George Reavis, who was then Assistant Superintendent of the Cincinnati Public Schools, wanted to point out something about expectations–expectations that are institutionalized, expectations that become across-the-board standards. Expectations that are also unrealistic and unfair. He wrote a fable. Here it is: Once upon a time…
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Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: The Prophets
This is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday. Tomorrow, the nation honors the life and legacy of that great prophet. I use that word, “prophet,” intentionally, designating anyone who speaks to the crucial issues of our time from the perspective of what is loving and just. Sometimes the prophet must trouble the waters when that’s…
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Seventy-seven years ago, in 1945, a Unitarian minister named Everett Moore Baker said something. He was speaking to his church which happened to be on Cleveland’s East Side, First Unitarian. He said, “I believe that we have an obligation to make available to more people the religious ideals of our church. I believe that more…
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It was Nobel prize-winning writer Elie Wiesel who once wrote, “The true challenge of life is not just in beginning, but in beginning again.” Life continually opens up new doors for us–the new year of 2022 is one such door–but the question then becomes: can we actually step through? What if we can’t, because we’re…
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