by Kathy Hurt | Apr 30, 2022 | Reflections |
One phrase I hear often in conversations about church gatherings is the phrase “showing up”: people talk of the need to show up, the importance of showing up, just how a person shows up. With the pandemic, we learned a whole new way of showing up that had not...
by Kathy Hurt | Apr 27, 2022 | Reflections |
In a recent meeting of those leading antiracist work in the church I presently serve, we were asked to reflect on how we “step into discomfort” in our lives. The question has its roots in the recognition that in order to do antiracist work, specifically the part of...
by Kathy Hurt | Apr 23, 2022 | Reflections |
Perhaps because of the wonderful availability of GPS systems that can guide us to almost any destination, even give us options of routes that allow us to avoid road construction or tolls, we may fall into believing that no matter the course of our life journey, we...
by Kathy Hurt | Apr 18, 2022 | Reflections |
In my own work on recognizing unconscious racism, I see patterns of racist behavior that are strikingly similar to patterns of addictive behavior. Which has me wondering whether racism might be a form of addiction, a particularly destructive and insidious form of...
by Kathy Hurt | Feb 17, 2022 | Reflections |
The fundamentalist church of my childhood fed me a steady diet of sin. Week after week, I heard in Sunday School lessons and sermons that all of us were sinful, hopelessly mired in evil, and nothing we did could make things better. Though the church offered us the...
by Kathy Hurt | May 6, 2021 | Reflections |
In the early days of the lockdown, I remember noticing how quiet the world had become. Less traffic when I drove, less traffic noise on the streets outside my home, fewer sounds of people going by on the sidewalks because everyone separated as they drew near. Across...
