The Advent of Hope, Grounded in Gratitude | November 26, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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- Nov 19
Transgender Day of Remembrance Service | November 19, 2023 Guest Speaker: Rev. CJ Sokugan Dunford
We do not ask guest speakers to submit a written message in advance. Therefore, you will not receive a written message as you normally...
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- Nov 12
Armistice Day Remembered & Revitalized | November 12, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
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...
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- Nov 5
The Breath of the World | November 5, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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- Oct 29
Neutrality: Not An Option | October 29, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The American Indian is the only indigenous people within the confines of American sovereignty. The merciless and ruthless attack on the...
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- Oct 22
Compassion as a Response | October 22, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
In looking for some comprehensive and “real” response to the current violence in Israel and Palestine, I came upon this clip from a...
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- Oct 8
Listening: Revolutionary Love | October 8, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
To a certain degree, our entire future may depend on learning to listen, listen without assumptions or defenses. - Emergent Strategy,...
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- Oct 1
Sunday October 22, 2023 10:30am Walking with God: The Sermon Series of Howard Thurman Vol 2 Mystics
Dear Engaged Spirit Family, The next Engaged Spirituality is Sunday October 22 10:30 AM-PT, 11:30 AM-MT, 12:30 PM-CT, 1:30 PM ET We will...
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- Oct 1
Unimagined Possibilities | October 1, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
...once we resolve to see clearly how things are, the process of healing – a word that, at its root means “returning to wholeness” – can...
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- Sep 24
Teshuvah | September 24, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
Rabbi Samuel Tamaras wrote, "The shofar is surely the appropriate instrument for proclaiming the advent of the Jubilee Year on the Day of...
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- Sep 17
Sunday September 24, 2023 10:30am - Video: Conversations with Howard Thurman Part 2
On Sunday September 24 (10:30 AM-PT, 11:30 AM-MT, 12:30 PM-CT, 1:30 PM ET) our Engaged Spirituality discussion will center on the video:...
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- Sep 17
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...
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- Sep 10
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...
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- Sep 3
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...
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- Aug 27
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...
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- Aug 20
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,...
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- Aug 13
Sunday August 27, 2023 10:30am - Thurman's Autobiography and Video Conversation
Dear Engaged Spirituality Family, On Sunday August 27 (10:30 AM-PT, 11:30 AM-MT, 12:30 PM-CT, 1:30 PM ET) our Engaged Spirituality...
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- Aug 13
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...
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- Aug 5
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...
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- Jul 30
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,...
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