Nancy

“I think about James Baldwin, whose words are just now beginning to seep into my soul, who also once wrote, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”3 He knew then, just as I’m learning now, that books connect us to the experiences of other people, of both the dead and those who are alive, to show us that we’re not alone, to provide us with a sense of belonging.”
― Cara Meredith, The Color of Life: A Journey toward Love and Racial Justice

“We are shaped by our daily habits. by the way we pray in the light and in the dark, by the way we speak and the way we trust. We worship God in the way we cry and scream and ask when we are uneasy, in the way we fully trust the Mystery to occupy our corrupt spaces and fill them with joy and fulfillment.”
― Kaitlin Curtice

“What happens when white supremacy taints our Christianity so much that we would rather scream the love of God over someone than honor and respect their rights to live peacefully within the communities they have created and maintained for generations?”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“And a narrative of slavery continues, today’s shackles the injustice of mass incarceration of black and brown men, and systems of whiteness that do not affirm equality, liberty, and justice for all. It’s hard to ignore the facts when “more African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The mass incarceration of people of color is a big part of the reason that a black child born today is less likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during slavery.”
― Cara Meredith, The Color of Life: A Journey toward Love and Racial Justice