April 9, 2026 Today marks the 81st anniversary of the martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was hanged on this day, at age 39, at Flossenburg Concentration Camp just weeks before the end of WWII and Hitler’s suicide. Without a jury or witnesses, Bonhoeffer was sentenced to death for his role in assisting Jews in fleeingContinueContinue reading “Bonhoeffer Today”
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Peace as Resistance
April 7, 2026 Esther “Etty” Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered at Auschwitz. Compare her to the sitting President of the United StatesContinueContinue reading “Peace as Resistance”
Look to the Stars
February 5, 2026 Over the past two weeks, since the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE “agents” on the streets of Minneapolis, I’ve tried to put my feelings into words, wishing that the bullets that spewed from those guns into Pretti’s back would have moved as slowly as the ink from my pen. I cannotContinueContinue reading “Look to the Stars”
Resistance and Resilience: Offering
September 23, 2025 For the past few months, this blog has been focused on works of creativity as acts of resistance to the powers that be and a means of resilience that remind us we are not alone even as the world turns upside-down and inside-out. This morning’s post will be the last in thisContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Offering”
Resistance and Resilience: Stillness
Photograph (c) Lois Justrabo “Be still and know that I am God.” (Ps. 46:10) In these tense months since Donald Trump became President and his administration began shredding the Constitution, I have walked a constant tightrope between despair and hope. In trying to maintain that impossible stance, I’ve come to realize that now, more thanContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Stillness”
Resistance and Resilience: Birds
Photo credit (c) Turner Matthews August 3, 2025 “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” Matthew 6:26 Since the beginning of time, humans have turned to nature to find silence, centering, rejuvenation,ContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Birds”
Resistance and Resilience: I’m Sorry, too
July 28, 2025 I recently came across a Facebook site and web page called “We Choose Welcome” https://www.wechoosewelcome.com/. This group created itself in the face of hostilities and draconian procedures being carried out by the Trump Administration in relation to our immigration situation. Today, a poem was posted that moved me to tears because ofContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: I’m Sorry, too”
Resistance and Resilience: Photography
Botanical Garden Iris (c) Ellen Hudson July 25, 2025 As of this particular date, July 25, 2025, 47,000 people per month are being deported by the Trump Administration (re: Rep. Dale Strong/Alabama)while 1,000 are caged in Alligator Alcatraz, an inhumane concentration camp in the swamplands of Florida. So much for due process. Our own presidentContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Photography”
Resistance and Resilience: Words
July 14, 2025 Recently, a follower of this blog sent me an essay written by Phyllis Cole-Dai (The Raft on Substack) who wrote: “According to The New York Times, the current US administration has now restricted or outright banned the use of hundreds of words and phrases in government documents ranging from agency memos toContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Words”
Resisting and Resilience: Rootedness
July 1, 2025 In honor of Canada Day and in deep regard for our neighbors to the north of the USA, I am pleased to post a poem by Canadian poet and photographer Monique Heintzman. Today seems a particularly fitting day for this poem after our Senate has just approved (by one vote) a billContinueContinue reading “Resisting and Resilience: Rootedness”
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