by Michael | Jan 13, 2021 | Education, Family, Quotes
Black children are our most valuable possession and our greatest potential resource. Any meaningful discussion of the survival or the future of Black people must be predicated upon Black people’s plan for the maximal development of all Black children. Children...
by Michael | Jul 22, 2016 | Faith-Related, Family
Sunday before service started I told Nate Noonen that the sermon was hard for me, hard in the preparation. I told him it was harder for me than the words appeared to me on the page after I’d written it. Usually I try to move beyond a sermon when it’s over....
by Michael | May 31, 2016 | Family
I messaged Dawn after the initial interview. Then we talked. She was feeling fine and was headed to a planned prenatal appointment. I breathed as if for the first time. We spoke about the interview but I couldn’t put more language out of my mouth. I had talked...
by Michael | May 26, 2016 | Family
The morning of April 1st I woke up at 3:30. It was one of those moments like years ago when, as a seminarian and pastor, I got out of bed at 2:30 and knew I wouldn’t return to sleep. So, like back then, I got up and got ready for the day. Before I actually went...
by Michael | Apr 18, 2016 | Family, Quotes, Reading
I’m posting quotes as we go through the fuzzy zone of being new parents again in these next days. This quote comes from bell hooks (Where We Stand: Class Matters, 6): While the poor are offered addiction as a way to escape thinking too much, working people are...
by Michael | Feb 14, 2016 | Faith-Related, Family, Miscellaneous, Relationships
Grief is a mixed and dangerous behavior. It is mixed because of its unpredictability. When you grieve well, you surrender to ignorance. You don’t know what you’ll do, which way you’ll turn, or how you’ll act. There is no map for the terrain in that area. There are...
