The opening song, known as the Black National Anthem, reminds us of our celebration this coming Wednesday of Juneteenth…the day when the...

There seems to be a valid distinction between belief and faith. Often we think of belief as having to do exclusively with a body of...

Each month I receive in my Pacific School of Religion (PSR) inbox a newsletter from the Dean of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). It...

It’s Memorial Day Weekend originally enacted as a tribute to soldiers killed in American wars. It has become a time to remember all who...

Give me the listening ear. I seek this day the ear that will not shrink from the word that challenges me to deeper consecration and...

We can learn a great deal from the way Mother Earth holds us all – the criminals, the saints, the weak, the strong, the rich, the poor...

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God is Change. The quote is from...

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding and to fulfill their...

Since we are not only living in the universe but the universe is living in us, it follows, then, that the human being is an organic part...

Any close examination of the world of nature reveals that everything is painstakingly structured. In its functioning, nature operates on...

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and...

My Lord, What a Mornin’…My Lord, What a Mournin’. Which is it? Or is it both? The words and the spirit of this Sorrow Song seem to...

There is, perhaps, no woman, whether she have borne children, or merely be potentially a child-bearer, who could look down upon a...

The Disciples’ Prayer Mother of us all, who dwells within and beyond, Sacred is your name. May your holy vision for collective...

As a child, I knew little about pilgrimage. I sang as did the other congregants of First Baptist, Mt. Zion District, Liberty, MO, the...

God Is God is the water in which I swim she is the air which I breathe, she is the life around me. She is all and none of this. But,...

“He was killed in one sense because mankind is not quite human yet.” – Howard Thurman Penned by Dr. Howard Thurman in a tribute to Dr....

We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that...

I really do believe that we can all become better than we are… I know we can. The opening quote is from James Baldwin…surprising isn’t it...

"All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be....