A Message from Rev. Joan

Kings and pharaohs once ruled with a singular imagination consolidating power for themselves and those loyal to them. Passover and Easter Week, which are currently being celebrated, are connected through themes of reimagination, liberation, and the ultimate power of love. It is these spiritual themes that have guided me these past several days of exhaustion and grief as cruelty has shown its face through mockery of the rule of law in the Oval Office, selfies being taken before political prisoners in El Salvador, and the demeaning and deceptive arrest of a Palestinian Vermonter at an immigration services office in Colchester.

It is natural to be fearful of what is happening in our country right now. It is also natural to want to turn away from the surreality of it all. I also know it is only in letting in the truth of our current circumstances and turning towards one another that we can find the courage to keep defending what and who we love in whatever ways we can. Grief. Acceptance. Softening. Devotion.