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Saving Children Begins at Home

Despite what conspiracies may say, the greatest trafficking and abuse threat to children is not posed by strangers, but by people they know.

The Longing to be Known

To be known means you are willing to live with longing your whole life.

Surrender to Love

Surrendering to love, especially in historically difficult times is no easy task and comes with a cost.

Taking a Knee

Taking a knee is an act of humility, courage and civil disobedience.

A Cottonwood Snow

It is to the woods that all lovers of justice retreat every now and again to stir their hearts and minds toward love for all creation.

The Extraordinary

I didn’t take a class, or search the world. I just saw what was before me on this ordinary day in these extraordinary times.

Sharing Toilet Paper as a Spiritual Discipline

When I say offering a roll of toilet paper to someone as a spiritual discipline, I mean it. It is holy and good. Practically divine.

Between the Wilderness and Garden: an Easter Message

Easter doesn’t begin when skies are sunny, the pandemic passes, or justice reigns. It begins while it is still dark and there is only love.

A Glimpse of Pure Love

“Don’t get fooled by all the other glittery objects around you. You will always find love as long as there is a sky above you. ” I have ...

Love Beyond Borders: 7 Calls to Action

I recently traveled with a group of Thistle Farmers to the border towns of Mc Allen, Brownsville and Harlingen TX. We visited nonprofits ...

Shaking The Dust Off

As I begin, my exit I realized while I pack that I’m shaking the dust off everything. There is rich red dirt that is the foundation of Rw...

Traveling With Friends

The next gift of this trip to Rwanda has been learning and laughing with friends. It allows us to experience getting lost as an adventure...

How to Live More Generously

I once heard that there is enough food in the world to feed all the hungry children. It is not a lack of resources; it is simply a lack o...

Compassionate Friends--How Love Heals

Watching the daily task of watering and weeding being carried out in the geranium fields in the Rwandan countryside is powerful. Watching...

Learning to Weave in Rwanda

It’s taken most of the day traveling in small towns and over bumpy roads, but I’ve almost finished a coaster. The experience makes me que...

Midnight Before Christmas

‘Twas midnight before Christmas, and all through our town A dusting of snow had shut everything down. The pastors, though, still had to b...

Stop & Wait: 2018 Advent Reflection

Sometimes I feel scared to stop and wait. It seems counterintuitive. I have been trying to grow a movement for women's freedom for decade...

Connecting Through the Ritual of Tea

Tea has an innately ritual quality to it. Do yourself a sweet favor. Take a breath, brew a cup of tea brimming with justice, and share th...

In Giving Thanks

Giving thanks is an expression of morality, memory and mutuality. In giving thanks we… affirm that life is a gift and how we live is our ...

Listen like you are falling in love

Recently, the Thistle Farms Events Team and I pulled up to small Methodist Church in rural Arkansas. We had driven past bales of cotton a...

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