A preacher and a poet set out to change the world, turning trauma and injustice into radical love.

This Love is the story of Reverend Cecil Williams and Poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani, two charismatic activists who stepped into movements and remade them from the inside. From civil rights and LGBTQ+ liberation to addiction and recovery, they braided faith and art into a single practice — love for justice, love for humanity, and love for each other.

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I began to refer to what Janice and I had as “this love”... In life, love was everywhere; at Glide, we had the chance to love unconditionally; but “this love” I had with Janice was intimate, profound, and daring.

- Cecil Williams

A preacher and a poet set out to change the world, turning trauma and injustice into radical love.

“

I began to refer to what Janice and I had as “this love”... In life, love was everywhere; at Glide, we had the chance to love unconditionally; but “this love” I had with Janice was intimate, profound, and daring.

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