Join us for Holy Week 2026!
We inhabit the "Iron Plateau," a landscape of endurance. Like Jesus standing firm before unyielding authority, we learn to witness to the truth even when the systems around us feel cold and hard as slate. We find the strength to stand when the world demands we bow.
Practice staying present in difficult spaces.
Ritual action: Practice saying your conviction out loud: "I am a follower of the Way." Stand tall and breathe into your strength.
Lucille Clifton
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
Lucille Clifton was an acclaimed American poet and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist whose spare yet powerful verse celebrated African American heritage, womanhood, and the resilience of the human spirit.