Day 31: Steadfast and Showing Up
The story of justice needs us like it needed Joseph, too—in over our heads, steadfast and showing up to do our bit.
Eileen Markey is an assistant professor of journalism at Lehman College of the City University of New York who has long reported on social movements, religion and economic justice. She is the author of A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura.
The story of justice needs us like it needed Joseph, too—in over our heads, steadfast and showing up to do our bit.
As I scrolled through the article that reported President Trump’s anti-immigrant and anti-refugee executive order had gone into effect and people were being detained at John F. Kennedy airport, I felt heavy with horror and despair. It’s a quiet-making feeling, despair.
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