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

“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...

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...

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

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

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

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,...

“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....

We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that...

I really do believe that we can all become better than we are… I know we can. The opening quote is from James Baldwin…surprising isn’t it...

"All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be....

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the...

If the soul is where God works compassion, then we have soul only to the extent that we have become instruments for the divine...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reverend Dr. Dorsey O. Blake, Presiding Minister Reverend Dr. Kathryn L. Benton, Co-Minister Dr. Carl Blake, Director of Music Prelude...

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...