by Erin Grayson | May 30, 2017 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
(@DeclareDignity) As a chaplain-in-training at a major inner-city trauma center, I sat with countless traumatized people: those suffering from grave illness and injury; their families and friends; and doctors and nurses who were charged with their care. Each person...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | May 16, 2017 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
In his picture we see a handsome adolescent boy with a charming smile, his bright blue collared shirt buttoned up all the way. It’s an image that hints at all the goodness later revealed about the 15-year-old freshman. He was a strong student, a valued teammate, a kid...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | May 9, 2017 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
“I don’t deserve any rights!” a seminary classmate announced, across high rows of ripe cherry tomato plants on an otherwise mild summer afternoon. We were tending our gardens in the Yale Divinity School Farm, where I spent my happiest hours that season learning to...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | May 2, 2017 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
“No one is against justice,” my colleague, a gifted professor of law and philosophy, contemplated. He has a way of cutting through complexities to clarify the heart of a debate. “The difficulty,” he continued, “comes in agreeing on what constitutes justice.” In many...
