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The Centrality of Creativity | July 14, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jul 13

The Centrality of Creativity | July 14, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

Before we can move into a new ar-rangement, we must first go through a period of de-rangement. The opening words are from artist M.C....

Choices and Community Building Radical Future | July 8, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Jul 7

Choices and Community Building Radical Future | July 8, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

Link to Video - Man Dies After Placing Lit Firework on His Head Link to Video - Stray Fireworks Hit Multiple People at a Stadium Link to...

Grant Us Your Vision in Our Time | June 23, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Jun 22

Grant Us Your Vision in Our Time | June 23, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

O God, grant us Your vision in our time Help us to write it so large that even a runner can see it. Make it so compelling that even a...

The Place for Which Our Fathers Sighed | June 16, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jun 16

The Place for Which Our Fathers Sighed | June 16, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

The opening song, known as the Black National Anthem, reminds us of our celebration this coming Wednesday of Juneteenth…the day when the...

The Breath of Life | June 9, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jun 9

The Breath of Life | June 9, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

There seems to be a valid distinction between belief and faith. Often we think of belief as having to do exclusively with a body of...

A Tribute to Elaine Stolp | June 2, 2024 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Jun 2

A Tribute to Elaine Stolp | June 2, 2024 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake

Each month I receive in my Pacific School of Religion (PSR) inbox a newsletter from the Dean of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). It...

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May 26

Give Peace A Chance | May 26, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

It’s Memorial Day Weekend originally enacted as a tribute to soldiers killed in American wars. It has become a time to remember all who...

The Beginning of "The Church" | May 19, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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May 18

The Beginning of "The Church" | May 19, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

Give me the listening ear. I seek this day the ear that will not shrink from the word that challenges me to deeper consecration and...

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May 12

Being Held by the Mother…the Greening Branch | May 12, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

We can learn a great deal from the way Mother Earth holds us all – the criminals, the saints, the weak, the strong, the rich, the poor...

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May 5

Parable of the Sower | May 5, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God is Change. The quote is from...

Life Through the Eyes of a Tree | April 28, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Apr 28

Life Through the Eyes of a Tree | April 28, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding and to fulfill their...

The Evolving Habits of Nature | April 21, 2024 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Apr 21

The Evolving Habits of Nature | April 21, 2024 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

Since we are not only living in the universe but the universe is living in us, it follows, then, that the human being is an organic part...

The Creator’s Working Paper | April 14, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Apr 14

The Creator’s Working Paper | April 14, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

Any close examination of the world of nature reveals that everything is painstakingly structured. In its functioning, nature operates on...

It’s About Love | April 7, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Apr 7

It’s About Love | April 7, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and...

Easter Sunday | March 31, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Mar 31

Easter Sunday | March 31, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

My Lord, What a Mornin’…My Lord, What a Mournin’. Which is it? Or is it both? The words and the spirit of this Sorrow Song seem to...

Give Wings to the Mind and Heart | March 24, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Mar 24

Give Wings to the Mind and Heart | March 24, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

There is, perhaps, no woman, whether she have borne children, or merely be potentially a child-bearer, who could look down upon a...

Lent or Lint | March 17, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Mar 17

Lent or Lint | March 17, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

The Disciples’ Prayer Mother of us all, who dwells within and beyond, Sacred is your name. May your holy vision for collective...

In Place Pilgrimage | March 10, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Mar 10

In Place Pilgrimage | March 10, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

As a child, I knew little about pilgrimage. I sang as did the other congregants of First Baptist, Mt. Zion District, Liberty, MO, the...

Sojourners for Justice | March 3, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Mar 2

Sojourners for Justice | March 3, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

God Is God is the water in which I swim she is the air which I breathe, she is the life around me. She is all and none of this. But,...

Joy in the Mourning | February 25, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Feb 25

Joy in the Mourning | February 25, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

“He was killed in one sense because mankind is not quite human yet.” – Howard Thurman Penned by Dr. Howard Thurman in a tribute to Dr....

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