JUST Listening Blog

Dissolving the Taproot of Violence: JUST Listening

by Fred Magondu and Sharon Browning Fred Magondu and Sharon Browning are listeners and facilitators...

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Tenderness: A Spiritual Practice for Activists

By Sharon Browning Early in the morning on the day Derek Chauvin was convicted of...

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Strategies and Tips for Incarcerated Persons

We are honored, privileged and very excited to have the opportunity to present the following...

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All Our Griefs: What Do We Do Now?

First of all, I want to preface what follows with a declaration of hopefulness: despite...

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Vulnerable

We Americans recently learned that our government has banned the use of 7 words and...

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Our Truest Dignity

There is an apocryphal story, peculiarly American but also universally human, that during the US...

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How To Build a Wall: A Nativity Story

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. Fyodor...

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Reason for Hope…No Matter Who Wins

This past week, a remarkable thing happened in the City of Brotherly and Sisterly Love....

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A Plea for Kindness

My friend Tanya is one of the humans I admire most, in part because of...

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The Coming of The Light

I recently spent three days in silence, in the woods, reconnecting with my center. It's...

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