Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.

- James Russell Lowell

Those words, diverse and creative? Not an accident.

This isn’t about mass street protests, necessarily. Those aren’t safe now, not when they’ve got the army on their side. No pink hats, kids.

Time to level up and get smarter.

Here’s a reading list for you:

And the songs from Philadelphia Chickens! Cows, we’re remarkable cows….

There is always more inside and beyond ourselves to explore and experience. Part of the journey out of the binary thinking of fundamentalism invites us into the diversity and in between spaces of being alive, of love, of faith, and of how we connect to one another.