Last week I was at Cornell University as the Irik Sevin Fellow in Residence at the Alice Cook House. It was a chance to get to know some of the students in an extended engagement and as part of the week, we set up a studio and asked the entire West Campus community, “What kind of world do you want to live in?” We did … Continue reading What kind of world?
When the Methodist church voted this week to uphold its opposition to gay marriage and gay clergy, I though immediately of Jarell Wilson, who started his interview by saying, “I am a black gay man living in the south, and I am a Christian.” More specifically, he is a Methodist. Jarell talks about the weight of carrying all of these identities “in a society that … Continue reading Throwback Thursday
