Your tears are not forgotten
“I have no comfort to offer those opposed to meaningful reparations. Let a refining fire burn away all the evil in you and in this country until only righteousness remains.” Continue reading Your tears are not forgotten
Author: lcolondelay
Lisa Colón DeLay (@lisadelay) is a writer, teacher, podcaster of Spark My Muse podcast (sparkmymuse.com) and author of the spiritual formation book: "The Wild Land Within". She is Latina (Puerto Rican) and multi-ethnic and her focuses are Spiritual Formation, spiritual companioning, and learning the ways of Jesus that de-centers the Empire of this world.
The Baked-in Blindness Under America’s Colorblindness
When overlooking difference for the sake of inclusion isn’t based in equal human worth By Lisa Colón DeLay Have you heard about the problems and harms of colorblindness lately? I have. I’m hearing that we’ve been thinking about differences all … Continue reading The Baked-in Blindness Under America’s Colorblindness
Welcome and Release
The fruit of un-othering Somehow humans have weaponized finding our identity. We will decide who we are by alienating someone else. We form our group, not by receiving but through casting out and marginalizing. We make those who could be partners and friends into “the Other”. Humans are comforted but certainty even if that certainty eliminates options for making our lives and our world a better place. We can ruin ourselves with this stubbornness. Instead of embrace, we will choose differentiation and even scorn. Instead of welcome, we will choose mistrust and even assume a threat. Instead of hospitality, we … Continue reading Welcome and Release
Birthing New Realities
Hope is Spirit Work From underground, hope springs eternal During my conversation with poet Drew E. Jackson, who writes at the intersection of justice, peace, and contemplation, he told me about two realities. There is a reality that we know, … Continue reading Birthing New Realities
Make Truth Our Banner
Reckoning with History and Making Things Right Are you at all acquainted with the acrid sensation of shame? Something egregious has happened and you feel it in your body. Maybe you’ve made things worse, maybe you were only watching it … Continue reading Make Truth Our Banner
The Refugee Problem?
The spiritual deficit of not welcoming the stranger by Lisa Colón DeLay If we let it, this story can expose our own notions and shortcomings related to hospitality and those in need. How do we—both as individuals and as a … Continue reading The Refugee Problem?
Three-Fifths 