Compassion and the Soul | January 21, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
If the soul is where God works compassion, then we have soul only to the extent that we have become instruments for the divine...
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Jan 7
Forget It! 2024 New Year’s Message | January 7, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
I try, therefore, to allow myself to be taken by the force of all living life; forgetfulness... There is an age when one teaches what one...
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Dec 31, 2023
6 Flags over Martin | December 31, 2023 Rev. Dr. Martin Todd Allen
The title of this talk is 6 Flags over Martin. Can anyone guess which 6 flags have flown over me? The Rebel Flag The Christian Flag The...
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Dec 26, 2023
Terror Transform | December 24, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The innocent child Sits in great darkness A broken world smothers him in pain He is alone Mother and father are gone Dead at his feet No...
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Dec 16, 2023
Open A Window to God | December 17, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. The business of love is to make this window in...
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Dec 14, 2023
Will the Circle Be Unbroken | December 10, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
The opening music is sung to the familiar tune of We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder. The lyrics upend the symbol of the spiritual quest to...
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Dec 3, 2023
The Mood of Christmas | December 3, 2023
Reverend Dr. Dorsey O. Blake, Presiding Minister Reverend Dr. Kathryn L. Benton, Co-Minister Dr. Carl Blake, Director of Music Prelude...
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Nov 25, 2023
The Advent of Hope, Grounded in Gratitude | November 26, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. The opening words come from Meister Eckhart, a 13th...
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Nov 19, 2023
Transgender Day of Remembrance Service | November 19, 2023 Guest Speaker: Rev. CJ Sokugan Dunford
We do not ask guest speakers to submit a written message in advance. Therefore, you will not receive a written message as you normally...
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Nov 12, 2023
Armistice Day Remembered & Revitalized | November 12, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The Prayer I pray you'll be our eyes and watch us where we go. And help us to be wise in times when we don't know Let this be our prayer...
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Nov 5, 2023
The Breath of the World | November 5, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Listen more often to things rather than beings. Hear the fire's voice, Hear the voice of water. In the wind hear the sobbing of the...
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Oct 29, 2023
Neutrality: Not An Option | October 29, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The American Indian is the only indigenous people within the confines of American sovereignty. The merciless and ruthless attack on the...
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Oct 22, 2023
Compassion as a Response | October 22, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
In looking for some comprehensive and “real” response to the current violence in Israel and Palestine, I came upon this clip from a...
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Oct 8, 2023
Listening: Revolutionary Love | October 8, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
To a certain degree, our entire future may depend on learning to listen, listen without assumptions or defenses. - Emergent Strategy,...
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Oct 1, 2023
Unimagined Possibilities | October 1, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
...once we resolve to see clearly how things are, the process of healing – a word that, at its root means “returning to wholeness” – can...
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Sep 24, 2023
Teshuvah | September 24, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
Rabbi Samuel Tamaras wrote, "The shofar is surely the appropriate instrument for proclaiming the advent of the Jubilee Year on the Day of...
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Sep 17, 2023
Awaken | September 17, 2023 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake
I give thanks for Rosh Hashana and its awakening ritual and power through the sounding of the shofar. Its unimpeded blasts startle me to...
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Sep 10, 2023
The Scent of the Other | September 10, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
We are like a stray line of a poem, which ever feels that it rhymes with another line and must find it, or miss its own fulfillment. This...
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Sep 3, 2023
Our Shared Humanity | September 3, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
This opening video clip is from Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) teacher Oren Lyons of Upstate New York. He is an important chief in his tribe...
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Aug 27, 2023
Break Habits: Stay Woke | August 27, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Dean of Hobart College Eugen Baer Baccalaureate Address Back in 1976, the first class I took at William Smith College in Geneva, New York...
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