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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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Nov 5, 2023


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 29, 2023


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 22, 2023


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 8, 2023


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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Oct 1, 2023


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 24, 2023


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 17, 2023


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 10, 2023


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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Sep 3, 2023


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 27, 2023


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 20, 2023


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 13, 2023


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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Aug 5, 2023


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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Jul 30, 2023


Dreaming a New World | July 23, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
I like the idea that we are to play with this idea. That is what I hope we can learn to do. That is what I hope can lead us to the...
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Jul 23, 2023


Life Is the Greatest Gift of All | July 16, 2023 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake
For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?...
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Jul 17, 2023


She Who Dwells Within | July 9, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
You, God, who live next door – If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking – this is why: I hear you...
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Jul 8, 2023


As With Rivers, So With Nations | July 2, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages. They may sometimes rise in quiet and stately majesty,...
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Jul 2, 2023


Love And Tomorrow | June 25, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
What a revelation they were and are, two not quite one year graced our sacred dwelling last Sunday. Ikeme Isang and Nicholas Grosfoguel,...
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Jun 25, 2023


Father’s Day Visions of Tomorrow | June 18, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
And amazement seized them all and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen strange things today.” (Luke 5:26) I...
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Jun 18, 2023
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