by Kathy Hurt | Aug 9, 2023 | Reflections |
I thought by now my life would be different, or rather that I would be different. I took to heart that typical response of adults to children’s questions once complicated matters have moved into focus, how “you’ll understand when you get older.” I counted on reaching...
by Kathy Hurt | Jul 31, 2023 | Reflections |
No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and one is not the same person. – Heraclitus I am returning to my blog and website after a long time away. Having been immersed in interim ministry that required the exhausting process of...
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...
