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...

We do not ask guest speakers to submit a written message in advance. Therefore, you will not receive a written message as you normally...

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...

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...

The American Indian is the only indigenous people within the confines of American sovereignty. The merciless and ruthless attack on the...

In looking for some comprehensive and “real” response to the current violence in Israel and Palestine, I came upon this clip from a...

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...