Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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Month: April 2013

  • Catching Up With Myself

    I am catching up with myself on this Monday morning, after sharing the weekend with several of our beloved grandchildren.  Our time together included roasting marshmallows over our backyard campfire, storytelling and songs at bedtime, French Toast for breakfast,  craft projects, juice-making, an excursion to Deer Creek, lots of indoor and outdoor play, and a…

  • In Court for Anti-Drone Action

    I appeared in federal court again yesterday for engaging in civil disobedience with four others during an anti-drone action at Beale Air Force Base last October.  This time we were in court  facing Judge Katherine K. Delaney in order to set a new trial date.  This is no small effort, since so many people will need to…

  • Children, Earth Day, and Activism

    “The kinship that children feel for animals and their ongoing disappearance from us literally brought me to my knees that night, on a sidewalk in my own village. It was love that got me back up. It was love that brought me to this jail cell.”                   …

  • God Was in Boston

    When terrible things happen, people search for meaning.  Such events can shake a person’s faith.  “How could God have let this happen?”  “Why did it happen to me (or to them)?”  “Does God even exist?”  “Where is God?” Following the bombings in Boston, some people are asking these questions.  There are no easy answers, but…

  • Tax Day Demonstration Against Drones

    Our anti-drone action this morning at the federal courthouse in Sacramento was one of many actions taking place around the country this month, during the April Days of Action Against Drones.  Five of us still face federal charges for trespassing onto Beale Air Force Base last October during an anti-drone protest.  We were protesting drones…

  • Easter and Guantanamo

    “Remember those who are in prison as if you are in prison with them.”  Hebrews 13:3 Every Thursday afternoon, for years now, a group of Women in Black and their male allies gather at the freeway overpass in Nevada City.  Women in Black is a “world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and…

  • God Bless the Grass: Two Easter Songs

    Having gone through the winter of Lent we are now in the springtime of Easter.  I’ve been singing two songs lately.  They both use images of the earth to carry a message of hope in the face of despair.  The first song is “Now the Green Blade Rises,” a traditional Easter hymn.  The second song,…

  • Easter Renewal

    When I look at the major problems in our world–climate change, predatory capitalism, war, injustice of every kind–or even the small problems of family and friends, I want to do everything I can to help.  But that impulse can get me into trouble.  Doing “everything I can” takes me on a track that gets more…