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Profits? Prophets! | April 27, 2025 | Rev. Liz Olson
Having come through this Earth Day week, we have hopefully been reminded that in the midst of our national turmoil and threat to...
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Daybreak Miraculously Clear | April 20, 2025 | Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble,...

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Apr 205 min read
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Troubling the African Feminine Divine | April 13, 2025 | Hassaun Jones-Bey
As described last month, Howard Thurman wrote concerning the spiritual “Wade in the Water”, [T]his man with the incurable disease…...

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Apr 138 min read
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Strength for the Journey | April 6, 2025 | Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
Done made my vow to the Lord, And I never will turn back, Oh I will go, I shall go to see what the end will be. Done opened my mouth to...

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Apr 66 min read
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A Track to the Water’s Edge | March 30, 2025 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. The title of our time together comes from South African author, Olive Schreiner,...

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Mar 305 min read
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The Source and Goal of Life | March 23, 2025 Hassaun Jones-Bey
Howard Thurman describes the spiritual “Deep River” as “a happy blending of majestic rhythm and poignant yearning”. In analyzing this...

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Mar 237 min read
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Sisters, Brothers, All | March 16, 2025 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
I was drawn to the opening music after we sung it at our last service…the day that Dr. Dorsey Blake died. I was struck by a profound...

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Mar 156 min read
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Revolutionary Love in a Time of Coup | March 2, 2025 Rev. Liz Olson
Dear friends, this was the sermon I was to have offered last Sunday, the day our beloved Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake died and our world...

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Mar 1010 min read
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Memoir of a Pilgrimage | February 23, 2025 Hassaun Jones-Bey
If there were moments of deep despair in those years, there was also the sustaining knowledge that the quest for human dignity is part of...

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Feb 237 min read
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Carving Out A Place | February 13, 2025 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
There is a profound scripture that states if the present place is too small for you, carve out a place in the high country and journey...

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Feb 165 min read
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Spiritual Health Check-In | February 9, 2025 by Rev. Liz Olson
Hello dear church, dear Beloved Community, dear friends who are connecting from faraway places. Until just recent months, I too had been...

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Feb 88 min read
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One Creative Illumination | February 2, 2025 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
I don't feel no ways tired I've come too far from where I've started from Nobody told me that the road would be easy And I don't believe...

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Feb 16 min read
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The Creator’s Healing Medicine | January 26, 2025 Hassaun Jones-Bey
This coming Wednesday is the lunar new year. Lunar calendars and new years mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people....

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Jan 259 min read
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In the Realm of Angels | January 12, 2025 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
There must always remain in every person’s life Some place for the singing of angels, Some place for that which in itself is breathlessly...

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Jan 124 min read
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Living Responsibly in the Mess | January 5, 2025 Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
The year 2024 is over. It was a good year in many ways. We enjoyed camaraderie and common ground with friends and strangers. There were...

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Jan 46 min read
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Radical Self-Love | December 29, 2024 Hassaun Jones-Bey
Radical self-love is a term I encountered very recently in a book entitled, The Body is not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by...

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Dec 29, 20245 min read
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This Little Light of Mine----Eco-Justice in a Confused World | December 22, 2024 Karen Melander-Magoon, D.Min.
We are approaching the end of the Advent season, the birth of a child whom many of us see as the “light of the world”. I would like to...

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Dec 20, 202410 min read
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Wild Soul of the Mother | December 15, 2024 Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
The opening music entitled, Gliese 581c was written and performed in honor of the planet in a neighboring solar system that was...

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Dec 15, 20245 min read
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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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Dec 8, 20244 min read
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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 24, 20247 min read
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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 17, 20246 min read
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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 9, 20245 min read
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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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Nov 3, 20245 min read
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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 27, 20245 min read
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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 12, 20245 min read
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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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Oct 6, 20245 min read
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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 29, 20245 min read
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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 22, 20245 min read
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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 15, 20247 min read
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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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Sep 7, 20246 min read
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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 25, 20246 min read
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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 18, 20246 min read
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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 11, 20245 min read
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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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Aug 4, 20247 min read
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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 28, 20247 min read
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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 21, 20246 min read
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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 13, 20245 min read
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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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Jul 7, 20245 min read
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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 22, 20246 min read
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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 16, 20246 min read
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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 9, 20245 min read
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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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Jun 2, 20246 min read
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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 26, 20247 min read
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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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May 19, 20246 min read
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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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May 12, 20246 min read
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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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May 5, 20246 min read
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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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Apr 28, 20246 min read
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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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Apr 21, 20246 min read
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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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Apr 14, 20246 min read
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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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Apr 7, 20246 min read
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