The person who brought me my coffee this morning asked "I have a question, you don't have to answer if you don't want to // what are your pronouns?" I love how careful that is. I'm proud of how careful with eachother we are.

Really take the time to imagine this. What would it look like to fund healing? What would it look like to fund spaces to gather as a community? What would it look like to fund education to the degree we fund war?

“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.” - Ursula K. Le Guin What if Utopia is a process, not a destination?

Christmas rejects Christian nationalism: God is born an outsider, an ethnic & religious "other." The villain is government persecution of a marginalized community. If God wanted to change the world through violence and force, They could have. God chooses vulnerable love.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights said it best.

Commentator: a 6'7" quarterback from... Me: 6'7"? Dang that is a big man. My partner (playing candy crush): Sometimes men are big, dude.

We talk a lot about the universal declaration of human rights and our commitment to them as Christians with LWFyouth who attend #LWFPeaceMessengers trainings. Our call to build peace as Christians is inseparable from our call to uphold human rights and seek justice for all.