May 31, 2020 | Black Lives Matter
31 May 2020 I am angry, I am afraid, and I am frustrated. But my rage, my fear, and my weariness can in no way compare to the pain and suffering that Black people experience on a day-to-day basis in the United States and in many places across the world. The murders of...
May 1, 2020 | ACPA Senior Scholars
If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives in us. Excerpt from That Lives In Us by ~Rumi The Oar As this academic year dies, there is life...
May 2, 2018 | ACPA Senior Scholars
Written by Sherry K. Watt “I only preach from my scars, not my wounds.” -Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado As I read Patricia Daugherty’s Essay entitled What I Saw At A College...
Oct 13, 2016 | ACPA Senior Scholars
Written by Sherry K. Watt “The teacher also has to be a person who is going a little further. I don’t for a minute think that we can be teachers who invite students into radical openness if we’re not willing to be radically open ourselves, if...
Jul 26, 2016 | Black Lives Matter
We have been silent. But the silence has been intentional. We are in mourning and we are simply trying to heal. From Orlando and Baton Rouge to Dallas and Minnesota, we are in shock at the lengthening chain of violence against people of color. Over the past three...
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