(photo credit: Teresa Kroeger) Listen: The darkness has called forth the stars. We the People, we are together. Together we will say: In this country, we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. Come for any of us, come for all of us. We are not afraid. We are patriots, and we were born to do this. These are dangerous times. The values that we in this community have held dear for so long- religious freedom, racial justice, education, marriage equality, care for immigrants and refugees, free press – and truth itself – are at stake. If we want to pass…

  Please give your tax-deductible gift to Aleppo HERE. 100% of funds received will go directly to aid in Aleppo.     Okay, beloveds, circle up. I am going to break this down as simply and clearly as I can because there is no time for fancy words. ALEPPO. I need you to understand that if you are watching Aleppo and lamenting your inability to help- stop lamenting. YOU ARE HELPING THERE. RIGHT NOW. Through Together Rising, you have given more than $2,000,000 to refugees in the past year. You are helping to send a mobile hospital this week that will arrive in Aleppo on Christmas…

  I know that everything is scary right now. I just keep reminding myself that the two most often repeated phrases in my holy text are DO NOT BE AFRAID and REMEMBER. Our human family is dismembered—like a scattered puzzle. We must re-member. We must rise above our fear and come together. Even when we are afraid. We all have fear. But fear does not have to be where we set up camp and live. We can allow fear to become but a flicker. We can feel it, and then rise above it again and again. There is a place…