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Awaken | September 17, 2023 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake

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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...

The Scent of the Other | September 10, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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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...

Our Shared Humanity | September 3, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton

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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...

Break Habits: Stay Woke | August 27, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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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...

The Gold Beneath | August 20, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Aug 20, 2023

The Gold Beneath | August 20, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

Not long ago, I shared a message from Eileen W. Lindner from her son who volunteers as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Admittedly,...

Night and the Heart of Darkness | August 13, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Aug 13, 2023

Night and the Heart of Darkness | August 13, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

Please make a note that the Annual Howard Thurman Convocation is scheduled for October 15 (the 3rd Sunday), at 3:00 PM. The focus will be...

Guilty Bystanders? | August 6, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Aug 5, 2023

Guilty Bystanders? | August 6, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

Evil is faceless because it can take over any one of our beings. No one is exempt from the possibility of evil. The reality of evil calls...

Tao Art with Me | July 30, 2023 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Jul 30, 2023

Tao Art with Me | July 30, 2023 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake

I was familiar with the expression: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Until instructed by Taoist scholar Derek Lim,...

Dreaming a New World | July 23, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jul 23, 2023

Dreaming a New World | July 23, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton

I like the idea that we are to play with this idea. That is what I hope we can learn to do. That is what I hope can lead us to the...

Life Is the Greatest Gift of All | July 16, 2023 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Jul 17, 2023

Life Is the Greatest Gift of All | July 16, 2023 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?...

She Who Dwells Within | July 9, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jul 8, 2023

She Who Dwells Within | July 9, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

You, God, who live next door – If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking – this is why: I hear you...

As With Rivers, So With Nations | July 2, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jul 2, 2023

As With Rivers, So With Nations | July 2, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton

Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages. They may sometimes rise in quiet and stately majesty,...

Love And Tomorrow | June 25, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Jun 25, 2023

Love And Tomorrow | June 25, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

What a revelation they were and are, two not quite one year graced our sacred dwelling last Sunday. Ikeme Isang and Nicholas Grosfoguel,...

Father’s Day Visions of Tomorrow | June 18, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

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Jun 18, 2023

Father’s Day Visions of Tomorrow | June 18, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

And amazement seized them all and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen strange things today.” (Luke 5:26) I...

Redeeming the Warrior | June 11, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jun 11, 2023

Redeeming the Warrior | June 11, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

The warriors tame the beasts in their past so that the night’s hoofs can no longer break the jeweled vision in the heart. The intelligent...

The Journey of Grief and Loss | June 4, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

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Jun 4, 2023

The Journey of Grief and Loss | June 4, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

Grief is a language that goes straight through all the barriers to the heart and soul of anyone who hears it. We are afraid of people who...

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May 28, 2023

Memorial Day 2023 | May 28, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears...

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May 21, 2023

The Pocket of Ala | May 21, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

The opening music is about grief…about a grief so deep that it makes a human being wish they were never born. This is a song about the...

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May 14, 2023

Mother's Day | May 14, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no...

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May 7, 2023

The Brave, Awakened Rebel Heart | May 7, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton

Maybe moving through this world, in your body, is enough to make you feel constriction in your chest. Maybe you’re holding someone close...

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