by Minga Claggett-Borne | Aug 24, 2015 | Pilgrimage 2015-16
My neighbor Jude and I spoke across a raspberry patch. Prickly sucklings run between our fence. The honeybees buzzed, the day floating down on us like rose petals. Wait. Honeybees? Why was Jude watering the raspberries? I finished eating all those red dollops of...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Aug 13, 2015 | Pilgrimage 2015-16
Are you all ready? Have you packed everything you need? Written your last will and testament? Yes and No. It’s true that Jonathan and I are embarking on a 10 month journey taking us half-way around the planet. Baltimore to Denver to Seville to Jerusalem to Kigali to...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Apr 16, 2015 | Climate Justice
Police are discriminating against people of color, black and brown are getting stopped, frisked and killed. April 14 was Stop Mass Incarceration Day: police cannot continue to kill innocent citizens. This week is also Heat Week at Harvard U. Today students have closed...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Mar 19, 2015 | Light In Action, Stopping Violence
Some proclaim that peace is possible. Really? Where? Does it last? Quakers and Amish and some intentional communities have islands of peace. Some scientists think we can abolish war. I certainly pray for it. I thought our economy depended on war. Certainly our...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jan 2, 2015 | Climate Justice
I wrestle with what Holy Spirit asks of me. Since I swim in the waters of the empire called the USA, I’m blinded by my culture. This full moon the Spirit presents stronger than ever as Gaia. I’m reflecting this month on Native American voices that I heard in a...
