To a certain degree, our entire future may depend on learning to listen, listen without assumptions or defenses. - Emergent Strategy,...

...once we resolve to see clearly how things are, the process of healing – a word that, at its root means “returning to wholeness” – can...

Rabbi Samuel Tamaras wrote, "The shofar is surely the appropriate instrument for proclaiming the advent of the Jubilee Year on the Day of...

I give thanks for Rosh Hashana and its awakening ritual and power through the sounding of the shofar. Its unimpeded blasts startle me to...

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...

This opening video clip is from Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) teacher Oren Lyons of Upstate New York. He is an important chief in his tribe...

Dean of Hobart College Eugen Baer Baccalaureate Address Back in 1976, the first class I took at William Smith College in Geneva, New York...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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?...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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