It's easy to dance with my mom because we both know that she is the better dancer- she takes the lead, and I gladly follow. Our readings push us to examine who is leading - our outward facing religious self, or our inward spiritual core?

Howard Thurman taught that the way to change external society was to change one’s internal reality. He was gracious, intellectual, humble, well-read and well-traveled. To know him better, I suggest we all pick up a copy of Jesus and the Disinherited, which changed my view of my responsibility to love like Jesus and my reaction to a variety of issues that seem to press against us all from before and behind. Published in 1949, this book shows that Jesus taught the oppressed people of his time a faith-based unconditional love that would enable them to endure their oppression and have agency in how they responded, in how they lived life more and more like Jesus.