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...

Hello dear church, dear Beloved Community, dear friends who are connecting from faraway places. Until just recent months, I too had been...

I don't feel no ways tired I've come too far from where I've started from Nobody told me that the road would be easy And I don't believe...

This coming Wednesday is the lunar new year. Lunar calendars and new years mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people....

There must always remain in every person’s life Some place for the singing of angels, Some place for that which in itself is breathlessly...

The year 2024 is over. It was a good year in many ways. We enjoyed camaraderie and common ground with friends and strangers. There were...

Radical self-love is a term I encountered very recently in a book entitled, The Body is not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by...

We are approaching the end of the Advent season, the birth of a child whom many of us see as the “light of the world”. I would like to...

The opening music entitled, Gliese 581c was written and performed in honor of the planet in a neighboring solar system that was...

You have been invited to meet The Friend. No one can resist a Divine Invitation. That narrows down all our choices To just two: We can...

I acknowledge that I am writing from the ancestral and unceded land of the Miwok and Yokuts People.     I chose to open with the story of...

I will tell of the decree of the Living, Mighty God Who said to me, “You are my child. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will...

The song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written by poet James Weldon Johnson with lyrics by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1900 in...

Black Hole   If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me Even the night shall be light about me… The darkness and the light are both...

Come and go with me to that land Come and go with me to that land Come and go with me to that land Where I'm bound (where I'm bound) Come...

The burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.   The...