Jesus said to the 12: “Fear no one. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.” Happy Father’s Day! Today, we recognize the fathers in our society for their service and care to us. We also encourage them because, in this day, good husbands and fathers aren’t appreciated by society. Often, people think […]

Today is Father’s Day and although my Dad is not here anymore, I have been preparing for the holiday to celebrate my husband. He has been a good father to his two children and in the last seven years, to my three kids and grandchildren. He has loved well, and I am grateful. I miss my dad and have many […]

Fathers come in a myriad of shapes and sizes, skin color, athletic ability, intelligence and native language. At the very best they are present for us – awake to our growing needs and invested in teaching us to navigate a complicated world. At the worst they are present but distracted, focused on objects outside the family that bring succor to […]

From San Antonio to Del Rio, from Marfa to El Paso and many places in between, our communities have shown the outrage we feel about another black man dying in police custody. I too felt the need to take action, and, while marching in solidarity with George Floyd’s family and 60,000 others, I realized that not everything has to be […]

Benjamin Banneker was born in Maryland in 1731. His father was a freed slave born in Africa, his mother the American daughter of freed slaves. Some later accounts say that his mother’s mother was an English milkmaid, but he never claimed this in writing. He was proud of being black: “I freely and cheerfully acknowledge, that I am of the […]