The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Sep 10
- 7 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Sep 3
- 5 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Aug 27
- 5 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Aug 20
- 7 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Aug 13
- 7 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Aug 5
- 5 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jul 30
- 7 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jul 23
- 5 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jul 17
- 6 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jul 8
- 6 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jul 2
- 5 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jun 25
- 5 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jun 18
- 6 min
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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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jun 11
- 6 min
Redeeming the Warrior | June 11, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jun 4
- 6 min
The Journey of Grief and Loss | June 4, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- May 28
- 6 min
Memorial Day 2023 | May 28, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- May 21
- 5 min
The Pocket of Ala | May 21, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- May 14
- 7 min
Mother's Day | May 14, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- May 7
- 5 min
The Brave, Awakened Rebel Heart | May 7, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Maybe moving through this world, in your body, is enough to make you feel constriction in your chest. Maybe you’re holding someone close...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Apr 30
- 5 min
The Gift of Harry Belafonte | April 30, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
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...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Apr 22
- 6 min
Let’s Wing It | April 23, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
One of my favorite literary passages comes from the pen of Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and literary genius...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Apr 15
- 5 min
Resting in the Grace of the World | April 16, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
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,...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Apr 9
- 6 min
Easter Sunday | April 9, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
So long as you recognize that no event of your life, whatever its character, can imprison you, you will not scale down your aspirations...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Apr 2
- 7 min
A Dove and a Donkey Frame Palm Sunday | April 2, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Last night I lay asleeping There came a dream so fair I stood in old Jerusalem Beside the temple there I heard the children singing And...
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- Mar 26
- 5 min
I Can Hear Her Breathing | March 26, 2023 by Rev Dr. Kathryn Benton
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. The opening music reminds us that we...
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- Mar 18
- 6 min
It’s for the Birds and Us Also! | March 19, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Mar 12
- 7 min
Our God Is One | March 12, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.” Deuteronomy 6:4 The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men [people] often...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Mar 5
- 5 min
Healing the Whole | March 5, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
In traditional medicine the goal is to heal, whereas in modern medicine the goal is to cure, the Grandmothers say. Curing aims to make a...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Feb 25
- 6 min
Giving Up, Opening Up | February 25, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“The particular fact or experience which we are facing at the moment, or the memory of other particular facts or experiences from other...
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- Feb 19
- 4 min
Speak Out Prophets! | February 19, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Who are the prophets? They are a royal people, who penetrate mystery and see with the spirit's eyes. In illuminating darkness they speak...
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- Feb 11
- 5 min
Walking Through the Valley of the Pulsing Now | February 12, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
We shall walk through the valley in peace…I felt in great need of this song this week. There is a great need for peace…personal peace,...
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- Feb 5
- 6 min
Am I My Brother’s Keeper? | February 5, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“Listen, your brother’s blood is crying to me from the soil.” Genesis 4:10 -- Moffatt Translation I am presently haunted by this...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jan 29
- 5 min
God is Making Room | January 29, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
I give praise to Brigid, daughter of Ireland Daughter of all lands, let us praise her. The bright torch of Leinster, shining across the...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jan 22
- 6 min
The Other-Than | January 22, 2023 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The past week was marvelous. The Martin Luther King, Jr./Howard Thurman Homily service at Fellowship was informative and inspiring,...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jan 15
- 5 min
Breathe On Me Breath of God | January 15, 2023 Rev.Dr. Kathryn Benton
The opening music was created with the words from Dorothee Sölle, German mystic, poet and activist. She based the words on a hymn written...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Jan 8
- 4 min
Epiphany! Manifestation of God | January 8, 2023 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
O noblest green viridity O noblest green viridity, you're rooted in the sun and in the clear bright calm you shine within a wheel no...
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- Jan 1
- 9 min
Divine and Human: Contradiction or Reality | January 1, 2023 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Where refugees seek deliverance that never comes And the heart consumes itself, if it would live, Where children age before their time,...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Dec 24, 2022
- 7 min
Standing in Fear and Gambling | December 25, 2022 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by Yet in the dark street...
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- Dec 18, 2022
- 5 min
Solstice, Hanukkah, Our Lady, ChristmasLight and Dark | December 18, 2022 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And as it gives its flame to the other see how its own light…increases! YOU...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
Emmanuel…God with Us | December 11, 2022 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
In the center of the castle of Brahman, our own body, there is a small shrine in the form of a lotus flower, and within can be found a...
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- Dec 4, 2022
- 6 min
The Remnant at Advent | December 4, 2022 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice!...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Nov 26, 2022
- 6 min
Gratitude | November 26, 2022 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
“If the only prayer you said was 'thank you,' that would be enough.” – Meister Eckhart Monday of this past week, there was a knock at my...
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- Nov 20, 2022
- 2 min
Transgender Day of Remembrance | November 20, 2022 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Dear “Fellowship,” Today at Fellowship Church we host our annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) Worship Service. We do this...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Nov 13, 2022
- 5 min
She Responded | November 13, 2022 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
The opening song was going through my head this past week as I started a new job in a nursing home. Meeting with patients was...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Nov 6, 2022
- 7 min
Thoughts during Native American Heritage Month | November 6, 2022 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Only the Indian people are the original people of America. Our roots are buried deep in the soils of America. We are the only people who...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Oct 29, 2022
- 5 min
Viriditas | October 30, 2022 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Big Basin Reopens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyueI0leXDc The opening video clip shows the re-emergence of the forest at my favorite...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Oct 23, 2022
- 5 min
Lighting the Way | October 23, 2022 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Oct 9, 2022
- 5 min
It’s Already There | October 9, 2022 by Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Change does not come from eloquence or persuasion. When injustice is the rule, justice always lies in wait. When oppression flourishes,...
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The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
- Oct 1, 2022
- 9 min
Embracing the All | October 2, 2022 by Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Our opening video was a Yom Kippur service that brought tears to my eyes. I thought to myself, what if all worship were so...
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