Shall We Say Grace?
When I was a child, my father kept an editorial cartoon pinned up in the vestibule of our church that made a deep impression on [...]
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Lessons in Servant Leadership
“The way through chaos, calamity, and confusion is not by adding chaos, calamity, and confusion. That multiplies what’s hurting us and undermining us. The Hebrew [...]
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Succeeding Against the Odds
After two years of divisive, hateful rhetoric from the highest levels of government, the profoundly inhumane treatment of immigrant families, and the placing of corporate [...]
Read MoreVote for Children Who Cannot Vote for Themselves
“That candidates were answering to us was really powerful. I was really glad I got to be a part of it. Even though I can’t [...]
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Reclaiming Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Children continue to be terrorized by the daily reality that there is no safe space in our gun-saturated country. They are filled with fear they [...]
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Lessons from Ruby Bridges
I recently had the joy of presenting an award from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs to Ruby Bridges. As a [...]
Read MoreThe Land of the Free
This week marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Black Power salute given by Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos as the American anthem played [...]
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Who Will We Welcome? Will We Welcome the Children?
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love [...]
Read MoreSetting the Example in This Moment
As parents and grandparents once again struggle to determine how to explain to their children current headlines of moral indecency at the highest levels, adults [...]
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End Cruelty to Immigrant Families and Children
“We can’t let people drive wedges between us … because there is only one human race.” --Dolores Huerta, Co-founder, United Farm Workers July 26 was [...]
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