Dean of Hobart College Eugen Baer Baccalaureate Address Back in 1976, the first class I took at William Smith College in Geneva, New York...

Not long ago, I shared a message from Eileen W. Lindner from her son who volunteers as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Admittedly,...

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...

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...

I was familiar with the expression: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Until instructed by Taoist scholar Derek Lim,...

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...

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?...

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...

Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages. They may sometimes rise in quiet and stately majesty,...

What a revelation they were and are, two not quite one year graced our sacred dwelling last Sunday. Ikeme Isang and Nicholas Grosfoguel,...

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...

The warriors tame the beasts in their past so that the night’s hoofs can no longer break the jeweled vision in the heart. The intelligent...

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...

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears...

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...

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no...

Maybe moving through this world, in your body, is enough to make you feel constriction in your chest. Maybe you’re holding someone close...

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...

One of my favorite literary passages comes from the pen of Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and literary genius...

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,...