12/16/2025
This isn’t about taking sides in ideology.
It’s about naming a pattern that keeps repeating and asking ourselves what we’re choosing to perpetuate.
I believe there can be beauty in belief, tradition, and faith when they bring us closer to love, compassion, and one another.
I also believe we have to be honest about when belief is used as a shield for unhealed pain, fear, and harm.
Violence doesn’t come from God.
It comes from pain that hasn’t been met, felt, or healed.
My heart is with every innocent life lost, every family changed forever, and every community living in fear.
I continue to pray that we can all remember our shared humanity before anything else.
And may we be brave enough to choose peace again and again.