Black August is a month set apart to commemorate political prisoners not only of the past, but the present. It is our individual and collective commitment to literally break chains—to respond in solidarity to Jesus' anointing to set the captives free. 

I have been a reader my whole life - I used to get notes sent home that I was reading in school during any subject and not paying attention to what was going on during that class. Through middle school,

There’s a value at the heart of progressive religious practice that I deeply value, and that’s the conviction that what a belief or practice does is far more important than what it is.

I remember one of the first times I was confronted with this conviction.