🧵 As you honor my father today, I earnestly hope that you also remember and honor my mother. #CorettaScottKing #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

Check out the Spring leg of the Troubling the Water Tour in 2024! Would love to see you if you’re close by! Reach out to us on the site to explore getting your city on the Summer/Fall leg! #TTW @broadleaf_books @EmpowerYourOrg https://t.co/Xs7yhv3dxN

A genocidal mindset is spreading at an alarming rate, both in international communities and here at home in the United States. Recent polling from the 2019 Lethal Mass Partisanship study shows that 15 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of Democrats agreed that the country

Like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed out, “The prescription for the cure rests with the accurate diagnosis of the disease.”  With any approach to social change, organizing and leadership development has to be based on an accurate analysis of the problem we aim to

We want to build a world that upholds the sanctity of all life. #TroublingtheWater invites us to explore what it means to create radical belonging for ourselves and others, particularly when we’re navigating real differences.  Managing the temptation to flatten or erase the

Everyone deserves to belong. We’ve established belonging as our core belief and an antidote to the discord, dehumanization, and violence occurring in so many of our communities.  So what exactly does belonging mean? More specifically, what does this concept of structural

As social beings, belonging is something that all humans need. Individual expression is important too, no doubt, but some of our deepest emotional needs can only be met when we’re part of communities that make us feel at home. So what exactly does belonging mean? More

Everyone deserves to belong. That means *all* people, regardless of identity, have the agency to thrive. So how do we challenge the cultural and structural conditions that leave too many people outside the circle of human concern? Give me 60 seconds and I’ll tell you. — We want

Everyone deserves safety. That’s a non-negotiable belief. So where do we start our work to change the conditions that bring every single person into the circle of human concern and create safety for all people? Give me 60 seconds and I’ll tell you. — We want to build a world

Great time sharing the message of #TroublingtheWater🌊 with great leaders in San Antonio with HE Butt Foundation! #Belonging #Becoming #Bridging #WidentheCircle

As we enter the next year of political activity nearing a consequential election, the temptation to constrict our circle of human concern versus widening it will feel even more accessible! A fair question is “how do we call out the global genocide and domestic assaults that

“An urgent, vibrant, and necessary call for justice, which is what God asks—demands—of us all.”—Father James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ @benmcbride https://t.co/HrArULWPsy

We are excited to see Radiant Rebellion by Karen Walrond and Troubling the Water by @benmcbride in Essence's round up of "15 Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait For You To Read This Fall." Click to learn more and view the full list:

Who do I need to become to create a world where all can belong? Troubling the Water is a call to action to confront the violence and injustice that threaten us all and to build a shared humanity. @benmcbride https://t.co/Vj3BfKvwa0

Fundamentalism just doesn’t make sense in hard moments. When Christians are welcoming the plunder of their fellow Christian so they can get caught up in the rapture by praying for their Jewish friends who they don’t believe are going to heaven with them, you know the math

A reflection: Sometimes looking at others helps me look at myself. Sometimes, when you’re hurting, you think everybody is against you and you can mistakenly empower narratives that deepen victimhood. The truth is, sometimes people ain’t thinking about you at all. Sometimes

This world is broken.

While we witness the historical and modern failures of fundamentalism, we do have opportunities to reshape how our past and present beliefs can widen the circle of human concern rather than constrict them. Every moment is not one for bridging, but every moment calls on us to

Hey @benmcbride just got my copy! This is a must read for anyone who moves intentionally with love at the heart of the mission.🔥🔥🔥#troublingthewater

“Belonging can’t just be the comfortable and happy feeling we might get as we nestle down with people who are just like us. If we think that, we have missed the point. Belonging cannot be held ransom for assimilation.”—@benmcbride