Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
On Saturday, May 4th, 2019, the world shifted for many people as the great writer and minister, Rachel Held Evans, transitioned from our world into the ancestral realm. I’ve long admired Rachel and am aware that her work has changed people’s lives, but it is in her passing and the swell of public lamentation that followed that I see just how much of an impact she had on this world.
During the Advent season, Christians around the world practice time travel. We deepen our faith by spending 24 days re-connecting with the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth and by remembering why his coming was worth anticipating in the first place.
