In life, the issue is not control, but dynamic connectedness.   The opening words are from Erich Jantsch, Austrian system-theorist,...

Our opening music, written by James Weldon Johnson and his brother Rosamund, highlights the profound struggle of the African American...

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” — Pogo, 1971   According to a 1947 Fellowship Church newsletter:   Most of us and our neighbors are...

After the last time we were together, at the ordination of Rev. Jones-Bey, I was reminded of my own ordination at Fellowship Church 21...

Life Holy spirit, making life alive, moving in all things, root of all created being, cleansing the cosmos of every impurity, effacing...

The title on the order of service may cause you to wonder. If not it should. I have so much grey hair, and also with tremors in my hand...

What are we as a church community?  What are we as any community?  We have all been deeply saddened by the loss of our beloved shepherd,...

The opening clip is from a teacher of mine, Luisah Teish. Some of you know her. Others may have seen her at Fellowship Church on the...

Holy mother where are you? Tonight I feel broken in two I've seen the stars fall from the sky Holy mother, can't keep from crying Oh I...

Holy Mother Earth She who guides those who live upon Her, She whose laws the people of the Igbo follow, living in the honesty and...

Having come through this Earth Day week, we have hopefully been reminded that in the midst of our national turmoil and threat to...

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble,...

As described last month, Howard Thurman wrote concerning the spiritual “Wade in the Water”,   [T]his man with the incurable disease…...

Done made my vow to the Lord, And I never will turn back, Oh I will go, I shall go to see what the end will be. Done opened my mouth to...

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.   The title of our time together comes from South African author, Olive Schreiner,...

Howard Thurman describes the spiritual “Deep River” as “a happy blending of majestic rhythm and poignant yearning”. In analyzing this...

I was drawn to the opening music after we sung it at our last service…the day that Dr. Dorsey Blake died. I was struck by a profound...

Dear friends, this was the sermon I was to have offered last Sunday, the day our beloved Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake died and our world...

If there were moments of deep despair in those years, there was also the sustaining knowledge that the quest for human dignity is part of...

There is a profound scripture that states if the present place is too small for you, carve out a place in the high country and journey...