Women Who Speak In Church

04/06/2026

On March 31, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.”

This EO will make voting by mail more difficult and restrict who can vote by mail.

AAPD is highly concerned that if any aspects of this EO go into effect, voters with disabilities and other marginalized communities will be disproportionately harmed. Already, disabled voters face increased challenges in accessing their right to vote because of policies and practices that make voting difficult. For many people with disabilities, voting by mail is the only way they can participate in elections. An attack on vote by mail is an attack on disabled voters.

Fewer people voting is not good for democracy. Voting should be easy and accessible for all eligible voters.

ID: White text on a dark blue background that says "Attacks on vote by mail are attacks on voters with disabilities."

01/24/2026

Micah 6:8---What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God?

Do justice----when something is unjust, God wants us to DO something to change that, to address the cause of the unjust situation, to change an unjust policy or systemic injustice. If someone is treated unfairly or discriminated against, God requires us to change that. If someone is being oppressed or unjustly incarcerated, God is requiring us to set them free.

Love kindness (mercy)--- If we love kindness, God requires us to negate meanness and hatred and disregard and disrespect, and also thoughtless language and insults and judgmental behavior. God is telling us to care for one another, not to dismiss others' concerns or needs. This means not mocking others or belittling them. Kindness is not the currency of our culture today, but it could be if we make it so.

Walk humbly with our God---- God requires this, not because God wants to be the King of the Hill and order all of us around, but because God loves every single person! When we as mere humans humbly accept that we don't know everything and we certainly don't know everything that others are going through, we can take a step back and know that the only way to love others is to fight for justice for all and to always, always be kind to everyone. How do we know that? Because every person is made in God's image. beloved of God. And, although we are not God, that image makes us capable of loving others, and that shows itself in doing justice and loving kindness. Being humble leads to gratitude to God for being both just and kind to us.

01/19/2026

Once in a while, I have to face head-on that there is so much evil in the world. So much violence, so much tragedy, so much meanness and hate. For most of my life, I have been able to look the other way enough to carry on as usual.

Lately, the evil outweighs the good by so much that it takes center stage. And I struggle to remember that "the light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not/cannot overcome it!" How hard it can be to believe that! How hard to find the joy and the hope and the promise!

And then I remember what a friend once said to me, "Everywhere I go, I see God going in front of me." If I repeat that to myself, I can start to see God in front of me, too. And then I realize, God is in the hard places, not only with me, but in front of me---showing me how to survive, how to find the good, even now. That there is nowhere I can go that God has not been first, and I am never alone, never in the darkness without that light.

12/19/2025

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