Leader’s Blog
Ethical Relationships
~ Jone Johnson Lewis I've been looking over pieces I wrote near the beginning of my Leadership career. I often come across things where I've changed my mind substantially. And I often come across things where I am surprised by the insights I had! Some people have...
Black History Month 2021
~ Jone Johnson Lewis I've been part of several antiracism and racial justice book groups over the past years, and have read a lot on my own, as well, especially since taking a course in African American history in college. That course was the first time I encountered...
August 20, 1619: Still Important
The New York Times still has online an incredible series titled 1619, which suggests that we have for too long paid attention just to the English-speaking men and a few women who came from over the seas to settle. Well, not really about their settlement, either, if...
Community’s Challenges
Being in community — especially a community committed to inclusion and diversity — can sometimes be challenging. Henri Nouwen, a spiritual teacher and activist, once wrote that community is “the place where the person you least want to live with always lives.”
Democracy and Reason
The following is the text of remarks delivered by Jone Johnson Lewis during the January 31, 2021, All Society Platform Meeting of the American Ethical Union. The topic was Democracy and Reason.
What Is Beloved Community?
~ Jone Johnson Lewis “Dr. King’s Beloved Community is a global vision in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human decency will not...
A Great Storm Is Over
Jone Johnson Lewis Writing on Inauguration Day, 2021 While my mind wants to believe today that we are waking up after a nightmare, this was a period that caused incredible damage. (I'm remembering that the outgoing president's inaugural address four years ago was...
Alternative Futures
Brueggemann, a Protestant Biblical scholar and theologian, stood for religion as providing a alternative narrative to forces of nationalism, militarism, and consumerism. While I do not share his Christian faith, I do share his basic commitment to the idea that in order to make change, we need counter-narratives to “this is how it is and how it always shall be.”
Imagining Democracy
Thursday, January 7, 2021 Like many others, I was glued to watching and reading news yesterday. I woke up celebrating that the turnout in Georgia was so large. I could not go to sleep until the certification process was finished. Do I think democracy is dead because...