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...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Apr 4, 2017 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
One bright Sunday in June, years ago, I met the Hebrew prophets in Rwanda. I received their timeless message calling God’s people to justice on the heels of witnessing the worst mass atrocity of my lifetime. This was my second conversion. Growing up, the church was my...
