“Find a god as you understand God. That was the key to my spiritual liberation,” explains Father Leo Booth. Booth (http://fatherleo.com/ a recording from 2000) shares his story of struggle with addiction and with the essential ingredients of the disease, and his redemption. These feelings mirror those of victims of sexual assault, as Rev Kathy Schmitz (https://www.orlandouu.org/) shares in an excerpt from her sermon “me too” and becoming vulnerable.

We are all on similar journeys through life, and it has been my focus this month to share stories that intersect in dealing with racism, sexism, alcoholism, and other diseases that are about our own insecurities with the world.