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Loving the Questions
“Your questions are of the devil,” I was told at an evangelical youth conference in high school. My insides responded confused, “huh? What the hell just happened?!” But, instead of speaking up, I went along with the adult in the room and regretfully shut my mouth.
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“Now I will Disappear”
The fullness of liberation lies with the fullness of voices. And so long as I participate in perpetuating the domination of cis-white-male voices in spiritual leadership, I perpetuate slower movement toward the fullness of liberation for all people (shoutout to Womanist methodology).
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Sacramental Action
To what am I willing to be present and awake? What ills of society am I identifying with? How am I yielding to social action as sacramental?
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Complacency, Complicity, and Confrontation
As I confront my own role in racial injustice, I think about the false narratives embedded in white supremacy.
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Yes Means Yes, A Sermon
Antiracist work is not comfortable. It requires a continual willingness to step into discomfort, lest we be complicit.
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Mysticism is a Riot
For today’s contemplative, looking only to the Desert Mothers and Fathers for examples of contemplation and mysticism is to dismiss half of what these things are. We must not fail to also look to yesterday and today’s Black and Brown contemplatives who have “turned the ‘inward journey’ into a communal experience.”
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Dear White People (including myself): “How much TIME do you want for your ‘Progress’?” James Baldwin
Note: This is about recent news about what has been done to black and brown bodies in America, if you feel you cannot read more about that, I understand. This is written to white people. If you don’t identify as white, you are still welcome to read, but please know this is not in any…
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Zoom Diaries: A Week’s Lesson in Finding Voice
Last week, I had the opportunity to be with a group of friends from all over the country. With each of us in a different state, we gathered at 9 in the morning until about 5 each night to discuss what it means to find our call, know our voice, and live into the creativity…
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A Conversation About Silence & Thomas Merton on The Methods Podcast
A discussion about everything from quarantine to Thomas Merton.
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Things are Different: Grieve, Slow Down, Pay Attention, Stay Tender.
Things are Different: Grieve Our lives will be forever changed. The grief and loss we now face will forever change us. They already have changed us. They will continue to change us. As long as I keep letting it in, grief is tenderizing me in ways my body had yet to feel. Loss is softening…
Dr. Cassidy Hall, DMin, MDiv, MTS, MA 