Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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  • Resisting Trump and the Deep State

    Hold onto your hats, including the pink, cat-eared Pussyhats that thousands of women are knitting to wear at upcoming demonstrations, representing their refusal to be demeaned by Donald Trump’s lewd remarks about women during the election.  Trump’s policies, as well as resistance to them, are sure to provide a spectacle during the coming weeks, months,…

  • Rise to the Level of Love

    When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.”                                        Martin Luther King, Jr. As Inauguration Day approaches, I will be joining people in…

  • Postcard from Burleigh County Jail

    This postcard arrived for my family a few days ago, now that I’m home from North Dakota.  It was written so lightly that it was barely legible, but this is what it said: Dear Ones, Here I am on my third day in Burleigh County Jail, happy to have a postcard and a rubber pencil…

  • Peaceful and Prayerful Resistance

    In my last post, I wrote about how my friends and I were arrested at a peaceful and prayerful action, separated, and taken to different jails.  My next post will be about my experiences in jail, as people have requested.  Today, though, I’m writing about the importance of the struggle for justice and healing that…

  • On Our Way to Standing Rock

    Here we are having lunch at a park in Rawlins, Wyoming, on our way to Standing Rock.  Tonight my good friends and I are staying in Spearfish, South Dakota, planning to get up early so we can check in at the camp in time for the nonviolence training at 2 p.m. tomorrow.  We are ready…

  • People of Faith in Support of Standing Rock

    “How can modern Christianity have so solemnly folded its hands while so much of the work of God was and is being destroyed?”                                       Wendell Berry Christian interpretations of scripture that support domination of the earth solely for human profit and hierarchical views that place some human beings above others have caused immeasurable harm.  Not…

  • Standing for Standing Rock

    “The Earth does not belong to man; Man belongs to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to…

  • We Are Everywhere

    Here I am, coming up from the depths of prayer, meditation, study, and writing.  These past months I’ve been focused primarily on writing my new book, Love in a Time of Climate Change, which is almost ready to send to the publisher. Then in August, I spent three weekends leading workshops in Merced, San Rafael,…

  • There’s Still Time

    It’s a beautiful day, with a light rain following last night’s storm.  The winter veggies and daffodils are happy, the fruit trees are happy, the birds, squirrels, and frogs are delighted.  Sunny days will return soon, and it looks like we’ll have a glorious spring after the first real winter in years. I’m grateful.  I’m…

  • A New Year’s Poem

    This December we have had lots of birthdays and other wonderful celebrations with family and friends.  It’s been a joy, and now we’re moving into 2016.  Some new things are coming up, including a book I am writing.  I don’t make resolutions, but I do have plans, many of which require work toward personal and…