I return to the Spiritual Leadership practice of doing my inner work. It may be the hardest practice of all. I want so many things to be different than they are — including myself. Yet the only path forward is to be right here in this real place, right now at this real time.

Guidance and counsel for Unitarian Universalists on what's needed to defend our democracy in this historic election season. We have been preparing to meet this moment with clarity and skill for months, years, and generations.

In 1985 I was 18 and voted in my first election. I happened to be home from college for summer break and voted in the primary in my home town in Pennsylvania.

Build relationships with communities to make a difference now and in the future.

Book to note: Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Prison Choir.

Campaign remains focused amid pivot to social- distancing tactics.

"People of faith, particularly those of us who are white progressives, need to combat the systems of criminalization in our country. Systems of policing and criminalization in this country are inherently violent, steeped in and created to reinforce white supremacy, anti-blackness, and racialized...

Please join our ad-hoc group of Indigenous people and allies to urge your Members of Congress to take appropriate actions to protect the lives of our Indigenous loved ones – and all people – living in federal prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.   ...

UU the Vote organizers say the 2020 elections are ‘all-hands-on-deck’ for Unitarian Universalists, whose values are on the line.

We are less than twelve months away from the most critical elections in our lifetimes. We must not be on the sidelines.

Investigative series confirms that four white men joined in the attack that killed civil rights activist James Reeb in 1965. 

A journalist on the front lines in a battle for criminal justice reform in Spokane, Washington.

General Assembly rallies with local activist groups against expansion of Spokane County Jail, raises almost $40,000 for community center.

Chanting “End mass incarceration!” and “Schools not cells!” about 1,000 Unitarian Universalists gathered in a public park in Spokane, Washington, for the General Assembly 2019 public witness event.

Two prison chaplains who minister together in Oregon’s only women’s prison discuss the need to end the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration.

The prison industrial complex is built upon a cycle of re-incarceration that it perpetuates. Many folks held in cages because of unaffordable bail are there because they are caught in a vicious cycle where they are being re-arrested for past challenges with unpaid fees/fines or court cases. (1) ...