I haven’t posted an update to our weekly clergy vigils at the Dallas ICE Field Office for a few weeks. For context, a group of clergy called “CLEAR DFW” has held weekly vigil there since the first Monday in May.
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Read moreI haven’t posted an update to our weekly clergy vigils at the Dallas ICE Field Office for a few weeks. For context, a group of clergy called “CLEAR DFW” has held weekly vigil there since the first Monday in May.
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Read moreThe only enemy is enemy-making.
I’m back again with more “war propaganda” produced by our current-day United States government.
Except: There is no war.
The United States is not at war.
The United States is not being invaded.
The culture…
Dear Regretful Trump Voters,
I keep hearing there are more of you, all the time. I have no idea if that’s true, but I do keep hearing this.
I hear old White grandmothers, calling into TV shows, saying they’ll never…
Read moreHere’s a few bits of coverage from #nokingsdallas
I’ll add additional links as I find them in the next few days…
My speech. I was pleased to have a beautiful interfaith group of clergy stand with me. We represent a…
“Free My Hands” is THE song that inspired a journey of discovery that eventually led by my new album: “Unfinished Business.”
This song, and the tracks featuring Rachel Bissex on vocals, were what drove me to look for an archive…
Read moreI am sitting in a pew, inside “Mission Espada” Church, at the very end of the San Antonio River Trail, and I am weeping uncontrollably. The salt of my tears is mingling with salt of my sweat; and my entire…
Read moreThanks to my dear friend, and “The Good God” Podcast, for inviting me in for a timely conversation about our faith and the issue of immigration.
I hope it’s helpful for everyone to be reminded that some of us as…
I’d invite you to make the connection between these two pictures. Because, if you can see it, then you can understand more of my own motivations and calling as a pastor; and, I would be willing to bet (even though…
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Today, Eric updates everyone on our CLEAR Vigils at ICE-Dallas.
He talks…
One song I’m most excited for you to hear on this new album is “Find A Home.”
It’s a retelling of the first actual “human” encounter I ever had with a homeless person.
It was 1983-4, and I would take…
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Get more from Eric Folkerth in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android … Read moreDuring last night’s vigil, my friend Eric Cedillo shared with us a heart rending story he’d told me on the phone earlier that day. It’s a story I want to repeat here, because I think it’s a powerful counter-narrative to…
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Eric describes the whirlwind of this past week, since the shooting at Dallas Ice…
Thank you to Allie Spillyards NBC5‘s for the chance to sit down and process yesterday’s terrible shooting.
“Community and Compassion.”
If you’ve been at Kessler Park United Methodist Church any time in the past few months, you’ve heard me…
I am seeing the breaking news of an active shooter, possibly multiple persons, connected with ICE Headquarters in Dallas.
Yes, this is indeed where we hold our weekly prayer vigils on the sidewalk on every Monday morning.
That said, I…
Read moreSurprise!
I’m happy to announce that in honor of my birthday-week, I have a big announcement:
I’ve got A NEW ALBUM! Coming soon…
It’s called: “Unfinished Business.”
Because that’s what it is. This surprise release is my own unfinished business…
Read moreMonday morning vigil at ICE HQ in Dallas.
A reminder today that Christians are called to be those who stand against violence, whether that be assassination or violence done against migrants.
God rejected the state violence of Jesus’ execution and…
Read moreThese days, my Mondays start early. In ways that are not easy for me, I'm out the door to our clergy vigils with little more than one cup of coffee in my belly, and across town to ICE Headquarters on…
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