Is God violent? Some ancient texts seem to indicate the answer is yes. But I know deep in my bones that this isn’t true.

Howard Thurman said that what connects us to the Divine, more than anything else, is the part of us that exercises agency to guard our souls.

To consider enslaved people and other groups in a particular text, it sometimes takes a little imagination.

Amid all the deconstruction, many of us keep returning to big questions: Who or what is God? Can we experience the Divine?

I don’t know how I would have gotten through high school without two friends. I owe them so much of where I am today.

At some point, I know we will be able to see above the fog of trauma and find a way forward in defiance.