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The Invitation | December 8, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Nov 247 min read
November 24, 2024 | November 24, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Nov 176 min read
Transgender Day of Remembrance Service | November 17, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
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...
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Nov 95 min read
Beyond Trump | November 10, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
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...
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Nov 35 min read
La Ténèbre | November 3, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Oct 275 min read
We'll All Be Together | October 27, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Oct 125 min read
Bending Our Energies | October 13, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Oct 65 min read
For the Coming New Year | October 6, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Greetings to each of you. It’s been a week of great silence and noise, noisy politics, war, and the silence after a great storm Helene....
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Sep 295 min read
Trusting the Mystery | September 29, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings...
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Sep 225 min read
Revolutionary Love | September 22, 2024 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
I have been reflecting on the concept of love lately, considering the unending news of hate throughout our world. I can think of no other...
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Sep 157 min read
What Happened? | September 15, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Colt Gray a 14-year-old boy killed four people and injured nine more at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, where he...
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Sep 76 min read
Revolution of Compassion | September 8, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
God is making room in my heart for compassion: the awareness that where my life begins is where your life begins; the awareness that the...
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Aug 256 min read
A Great Time Beckons Us | August 25, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right Little darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter...
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Aug 186 min read
Commitment’s Working Paper | August 18, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Knock innocently – as if you were…striking one clear note, never heard before. Create enough space within to receive the force you...
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Aug 115 min read
Commitment To Life | August 11, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
The meaning of commitment as a discipline of the body is not far to seek. The theme is ancient, as old as self-consciousness in the life...
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Aug 47 min read
Mending the Line | August 4, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
I have shared with some of you that I have never been fishing. When I was a child, my father fished some but not much. He was drafted...
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Jul 287 min read
Today Is Not Tomorrow | July 28, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
During our last online check-in, I was deeply moved by the empathy expressed regarding the state of our nation. So many lamented the...
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Jul 216 min read
Are We Curious? | July 21, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
The seed of the jack pine will not be given up by the cone unless the cone itself is subjected to sustained and concentrated heat. The...
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Jul 135 min read
The Centrality of Creativity | July 14, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Before we can move into a new ar-rangement, we must first go through a period of de-rangement. The opening words are from artist M.C....
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Jul 75 min read
Choices and Community Building Radical Future | July 8, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Link to Video - Man Dies After Placing Lit Firework on His Head Link to Video - Stray Fireworks Hit Multiple People at a Stadium Link to...
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Jun 226 min read
Grant Us Your Vision in Our Time | June 23, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
O God, grant us Your vision in our time Help us to write it so large that even a runner can see it. Make it so compelling that even a...
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Jun 166 min read
The Place for Which Our Fathers Sighed | June 16, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
The opening song, known as the Black National Anthem, reminds us of our celebration this coming Wednesday of Juneteenth…the day when the...
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Jun 95 min read
The Breath of Life | June 9, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Jun 26 min read
A Tribute to Elaine Stolp | June 2, 2024 Rev Dr. Dorsey Blake
Each month I receive in my Pacific School of Religion (PSR) inbox a newsletter from the Dean of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). It...
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May 267 min read
Give Peace A Chance | May 26, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
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...
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May 186 min read
The Beginning of "The Church" | May 19, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
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...
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Fellowship Church
May 126 min read
Being Held by the Mother…the Greening Branch | May 12, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Fellowship Church
May 56 min read
Parable of the Sower | May 5, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
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...
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Fellowship Church
Apr 286 min read
Life Through the Eyes of a Tree | April 28, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding and to fulfill their...
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Fellowship Church
Apr 216 min read
The Evolving Habits of Nature | April 21, 2024 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Fellowship Church
Apr 146 min read
The Creator’s Working Paper | April 14, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Any close examination of the world of nature reveals that everything is painstakingly structured. In its functioning, nature operates on...
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Fellowship Church
Apr 76 min read
It’s About Love | April 7, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“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...
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Fellowship Church
Mar 315 min read
Easter Sunday | March 31, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Mar 245 min read
Give Wings to the Mind and Heart | March 24, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
There is, perhaps, no woman, whether she have borne children, or merely be potentially a child-bearer, who could look down upon a...
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Mar 175 min read
Lent or Lint | March 17, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The Disciples’ Prayer Mother of us all, who dwells within and beyond, Sacred is your name. May your holy vision for collective...
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Mar 103 min read
In Place Pilgrimage | March 10, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
As a child, I knew little about pilgrimage. I sang as did the other congregants of First Baptist, Mt. Zion District, Liberty, MO, the...
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Mar 25 min read
Sojourners for Justice | March 3, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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,...
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Feb 2512 min read
Joy in the Mourning | February 25, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“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....
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Feb 185 min read
Hope and Restoration II | February 18, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
Feb 115 min read
Hope and Restoration | February 11, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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Feb 39 min read
Patches of Black History | February 4, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
"All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be....
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Jan 278 min read
Wisdom from the Mystic Spider | January 28, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the...
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Jan 205 min read
Compassion and the Soul | January 21, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
If the soul is where God works compassion, then we have soul only to the extent that we have become instruments for the divine...
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Jan 77 min read
Forget It! 2024 New Year’s Message | January 7, 2024 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
I try, therefore, to allow myself to be taken by the force of all living life; forgetfulness... There is an age when one teaches what one...
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Dec 31, 20233 min read
6 Flags over Martin | December 31, 2023 Rev. Dr. Martin Todd Allen
The title of this talk is 6 Flags over Martin. Can anyone guess which 6 flags have flown over me? The Rebel Flag The Christian Flag The...
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Dec 26, 20237 min read
Terror Transform | December 24, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The innocent child Sits in great darkness A broken world smothers him in pain He is alone Mother and father are gone Dead at his feet No...
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Dec 16, 20235 min read
Open A Window to God | December 17, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. The business of love is to make this window in...
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Dec 14, 20235 min read
Will the Circle Be Unbroken | December 10, 2023 Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
The opening music is sung to the familiar tune of We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder. The lyrics upend the symbol of the spiritual quest to...
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Dec 3, 20239 min read
The Mood of Christmas | December 3, 2023
Reverend Dr. Dorsey O. Blake, Presiding Minister Reverend Dr. Kathryn L. Benton, Co-Minister Dr. Carl Blake, Director of Music Prelude...
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Nov 25, 20236 min read
The Advent of Hope, Grounded in Gratitude | November 26, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. The opening words come from Meister Eckhart, a 13th...
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