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
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
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
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
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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- Apr 30
The Gift of Harry Belafonte | April 30, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
She lay in bed with him holding his hand. When morning dawned, she awakened. He slept on. Dr. Howard Thurman wrote that a good death is...
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- Apr 22
Let’s Wing It | April 23, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
One of my favorite literary passages comes from the pen of Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and literary genius...
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- Apr 15
Resting in the Grace of the World | April 16, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,...
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- Apr 9
Easter Sunday | April 9, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
So long as you recognize that no event of your life, whatever its character, can imprison you, you will not scale down your aspirations...
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- Apr 2
A Dove and a Donkey Frame Palm Sunday | April 2, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Last night I lay asleeping There came a dream so fair I stood in old Jerusalem Beside the temple there I heard the children singing And...
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- Mar 26
I Can Hear Her Breathing | March 26, 2023 by Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. The opening music reminds us that we...
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- Mar 18
It’s for the Birds and Us Also! | March 19, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;...
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- Mar 12
Our God Is One | March 12, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.” Deuteronomy 6:4 The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men [people] often...
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- Mar 5
Healing the Whole | March 5, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
In traditional medicine the goal is to heal, whereas in modern medicine the goal is to cure, the Grandmothers say. Curing aims to make a...
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- Feb 25
Giving Up, Opening Up | February 25, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“The particular fact or experience which we are facing at the moment, or the memory of other particular facts or experiences from other...
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- Feb 19
Speak Out Prophets! | February 19, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Who are the prophets? They are a royal people, who penetrate mystery and see with the spirit's eyes. In illuminating darkness they speak...
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- Feb 11
Walking Through the Valley of the Pulsing Now | February 12, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
We shall walk through the valley in peace…I felt in great need of this song this week. There is a great need for peace…personal peace,...
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- Feb 5
Am I My Brother’s Keeper? | February 5, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“Listen, your brother’s blood is crying to me from the soil.” Genesis 4:10 -- Moffatt Translation I am presently haunted by this...
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- Jan 29
God is Making Room | January 29, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
I give praise to Brigid, daughter of Ireland Daughter of all lands, let us praise her. The bright torch of Leinster, shining across the...
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- Jan 22
The Other-Than | January 22, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The past week was marvelous. The Martin Luther King, Jr./Howard Thurman Homily service at Fellowship was informative and inspiring,...
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