Children in Jail: Healing Trauma with Poetry
Do you remember going to camp as a child? I certainly do. I spent every summer from about when I was six to fourteen…
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In February, Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, CA hosted a week-long event that explored a compassionate and informed understanding of the mass incarceration issue…
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March For Our Lives – Students Across the United States Speak Out Against Gun Violence and Call For Legislative Change
#Enough, #WhatIf and #NeverAgain On Valentine’s Day of 2018 at 2:20 PM on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Cruz, a…
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Women’s March Los Angeles, 1.20.18
On the anniversary weekend of last year’s 2017 Presidential inauguration, I was able to mark my own participation in the historic Women’s March in…
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Visiting the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland – Understanding Its Important Work
In the poignant image below, the United Nations (U.N.) offices in Geneva, Switzerland are in the background. The mission of the U.S. delegation that…
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One White American Woman’s Journey into Understanding the Repercussions of Privilege….
The United States’ Pledge of Allegiance reads as follows: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the…
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Slow Food in Slower Seasons: What About It?
Naturally, seasons and cycles dominate food production, yet these days those factors have virtually no effect on food availability in most industrialized and post-industrialized…
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Help Wildlife SOS Save Animals and Encourage Sustainability in India
Wildlife SOS was started in 1995 by Kartick Satyanarayan and Geeta Seshamani. Their goal was to “start a movement and make lasting change to protect…
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MLK’s Timely Challenge to White Moderates, Especially Those in the Church
Over 50 years ago on April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an open letter from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama where he was imprisoned. He wrote this letter to give challenge to those that would ask for civil rights to “wait”. He wrote this letter to those that said it was “inconvenient” timing for them to think or act in regard to the civil rights of the Black community. He wrote to those, especially those who were white, that sat in church pews and chairs across the country. He challenged the ideas of what it meant to be a person of faith, and his words challenge us today.
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Faith & Courage for Justice in Charlottesville, VA
“God has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does God require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and…
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Is Anybody Listening? – A Poem by Natalie Patterson
Is Anybody Listening? We are a nation of opinions Someone is always talking Which leads me to wonder, Who is listening? Who is taking…
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Living Local | 100 Black Men Welcome Day, Pasadena/Altadena, CA
On August 14, 2017, over 100 black men from Pasadena and Altadena gathered at Altadena Elementary, McKinley Middle School and John Muir High School…
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