Vulnerability during prayer. It should be a code we all honor.

I keep thinking about how far away New Zealand is.

It feels distant—almost abstract.

But if senseless violence can reach that far, then it's already here. It's everywhere.

We have a global problem.

We are living in the long shadow of colonialism’s second wave.Its lingering tail end is supremacy.

We have to stop teaching children that others were conquered.

Even the language of power and submission—baked into schoolbooks—quietly reinforces beliefs that extremists still hold onto.

There is such deep vulnerability in prayer.

To kneel.

To bow our heads.

To be still.

It’s an act of surrender. A connection. A hope that we’re not alone in this world.

In that sacred moment—whatever your faith—

you should be safe.

Protected.

Honored.

It’s a human moment.

A shared one.

And it deserves peace.

(On March 15, 2019, 49 people were killed in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two more later died from their injuries, bringing the final toll to 51 lives lost).