Homelessness is spiritual, but not how you think.

Divorce is an invitation to authenticity.

There’s no such thing as a leftist billionaire.

Abolition informs my parenting. And I’m an abolitionist because I’m a parent.

How reappropriating my affection for my children facilitates my own self-love.

How Indigenous values will carry us through the Trump era and beyond.

Reflections on why the US homelessness sector is quiet in a time of genocide.

Stories of how learning from getting it wrong radicalized me toward socialist politics.

A poem about ego and insecurity.

To speak of criminalization without abolition is a joke without the punchline.

How both/and thinking rescues us from stagnation in nonprofit DEI organizing.

What would it look like for philanthropy to embrace an understanding of accountability from the wisdom of transformative justice?

A reflection on a Christmas breakup.

Hope may be valid for social-justice movements, but it fails to sustain us. And worse, nonprofit-industrial-complex executives too often weaponize hope to shame underpaid laborers for tapping out in the face of regression. But love is more nourishing sustenance for our movements anyway.

This article draws from abolitionist values that echo the teachings of street outreach practitioners who bear witness to the most profound human suffering and who, like many activists, have every right to despair.

In the final edition of the series “What is Spirituality?” I argue why it matters to have a positive understanding of spirituality and what social-justice movements stand to gain.

Part 2 of this series “What is Spirituality?” offers a humanist definition, one that acknowledges the limitations of the human experience and transcends religion and materialism.

The first of a three-part series “What is Spirituality?” this article names why ex-evangelical readers may be looking for and how it contrasts with religion and materialism.