Wisdom Wednesday: LSP’s Joe Manning on the importance of storytelling
“We need to hear from other people to know the boundaries of the map. Every time we listen to someone, we hear from someone, we’re adding another piece to the map — another piece of our understanding of what it means to live this life together.”
Festival Flashback: St. Stephen Choir at ‘Night of a Thousand Stars’
Enjoy this a Gospel performance of “The Lord Is Holy (Bless Ye The Lord)” by St. Stephen Choir from the Night of a Thousand Stars event during the 1997 Festival of Faiths!
Merton Monday: No shortcuts in the spiritual life
Merton on the spiritual life: “There are no tricks and no shortcuts..."
Wisdom Wednesday: Lifting up Black millennial women in ministry
“I do think part of my call is not only to preach women’s stories, but it is to construct new ways of doing worship, of doing liturgy that decentralizes patriarchy.”
Merton Monday: Thoughts on poverty from ‘Seeds of Contemplation’
“It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God's will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head..."
Flashback: Check out River City Drum Corp at FOF 1999
Friday, Aug. 7, marks the start of a virtual [...]
Wisdom Wednesday: Amb. Shabazz on perception and truth
This week’s #WisdomWednesday highlights the words of Ambassador Shabazz during the 2015 [...]
Wisdom Wednesday: ‘How do we help the oppressor?’
“‘Help your brother, if he’s an oppressor or oppressed.’ …We get the oppressed, but how do we help the oppressor? Stop him from oppressing.”
Merton Monday: Love and Togetherness
"We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.”
Wisdom Wednesday: Rev. Harvey on asking questions
The Rev. Robert Harvey says to “challenge what you receive, ask questions, say it’s not true because maybe it’s not true with you.”