“When someone is sharing that their experience of the world is dramatically different because they do not experience a privilege I experience, it’s my job to listen, to hear, and most of all, to not try to explain their experience away, to not deny it because it makes me uncomfortable or because I feel personally implicated in the group or groups that hold oppressive power.” -Audette Fulbright
How have you paid close attention when someone describes their experience of oppression to you?
So we are called into conversation—first with ourselves, to listen for the deep call in our hearts, to understand and chip away at our own prejudices and biases. (We all have them.) And then we turn to those closest to us, and with an open heart, in loving confrontation, ask for and listen to their stories, worries, fears, and pains about a world in which privilege is no longer conferred by skin color. -Arif Mamdani
What are the justice conversations you need to have?
“Justice is useless if it is only a vision of the future.” -Timothy W., a CLF member incarcerated in New York
How do we make justice real in the present?
“What if sometimes it’s about sparking potential into possibility, and possibility into existence?
What if sometimes the flame that burns in the chalice of our faith is nothing less than the ember of hope and nothing more than love set ablaze?
What if sometimes all we need do is follow this flame—one among scores, hundreds, thousands of steadily flickering flames across the land and among so many peoples—on the way to justice and into the land of peace?” -Lisa Doege
How has your potential been sparked into possibility?
“The religious responsibility of the faithful is to remove and dismantle the systems and structures that prevent the full flourishing of life and to enhance and side with the movement of creative and active love.” -Sheri Prud’homme
What does “creative and active love” mean to you?
