We “honor” Dr. Martin Luther King each January with a national holiday. Perhaps it is easier to put up a monument or have an honorary day on the calendar than…
As the holidays associated with the winter solstice near, we may feel torn between recreating the pleasant experiences of childhood and rejecting the religious dogma upon which they were founded.…
The Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a grassroots organization with over 200,000 members across more than 420 U.S. chapters, representing nearly every congressional district. Its overall goal is to Build…
A reflection on our nation’s division in 1864 and 2024. Where are we and where are we going as a nation? We also explore grief and grieving that may have…
Hope is not a vague feeling that things will “just work out,” because history tells us that life rarely goes that way. Rather, hope is a verb, more than a…
This talk will focus on addressing the ways that Western dominant religions have been mechanisms of colonialism, empire, and oppression. This work aims to center “folks who have been wounded…
One can understand the antipathy sufferers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) feel toward darkness, their sense of dread as winter approaches. But in general, darkness gets a bad rap in…
We share poems by Keats, MacLeish, Thomas, Frost, and others, to explore and discover multiple meanings to be found in the Fall season.
The Bible is a rich resource that does not lend itself to singular interpretations. In Vicar Vica-Etta Henrietta Steels’ study and work, she endeavors to free the messages and hope…
A brief history of the labor movement, some thoughts on where the labor movement is currently, where it is going and why it matters.
