Deaconess Community, Voting is the linchpin of our democracy. But as the nation nears its 250th birthday, it is appropriate to question not only the strength of the franchise, but whether we are now living in an illusion of democracy itself. To assess democracy in this moment without the benefit of a spiritual gaze is...

Deaconess Community, We have all heard the phrase, “it takes a village,” a reminder that raising children and sustaining life has never been the responsibility of one person alone. For Black communities, this has never been metaphor. It has been practice. It has been tradition. It has been survival. Long before care was medicalized, childbirth...

Deaconess Community, Women’s History Month, and certainly Black Women’s History Month, invites us to celebrate the women who changed the course of history. Yet some of the most transformative acts of women’s leadership unfold in quieter ways, through the everyday choices women make to support, uplift, and invest in one another personally and professionally. And in...

Deaconess Community, On February 17, 2026, life slowed as we paused to honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. On that day, Rev. Jackson joined the lineage of ancestors who shaped the moral architecture of the late-20th-century Civil Rights movement. A pioneering force in multiracial democratic politics, Rev. Jackson was...