Awake & Witness

The Unitarian Universalist Ministry of Karen G. Johnston
Civil Rights Trail

Angels In Our Midst

How might we surrender to our place in the vast cosmos, the strange mix....

Lost Souls Pilgrimage

Map Overlay

(this is the first of a two-part report on my visit to Morganza; the....

Lost Souls Pilgrimage

Its Own Time

Serving as a congregational minister, most of the time I must prepare a....

grief

Visiting the Whitney Plantation, part two

All over the plantation, there are artifacts and there is art. the....

Lost Souls Pilgrimage

Visiting the Whitney Plantation (part one)

Leaving New Orleans this morning, I spent several hours today at the....

Justice

Happy April Fools Day?

Queen Creole It had been suggested to me that I might want to consider....

Justice

Looking Back, Moving Forward

My spirit got fed. O! Did my spirit get fed. It wasn’t one of the....

Climate

What’s the Weather Like?

I have safely arrived in New Orleans.  I took the requisite photo....

Civil Rights Trail

Getting Ready

There are a number of ways that I have been getting ready for this....

Lost Souls Pilgrimage

Doubly Blessed: Water for the Journey

Just who were the Lost Souls? They were real people leading real lives.....