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Allegories of slavery & freedom in sacred texts: liberating or problematic? At the end of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alludes to the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 3:28: “There is no longer Jew or […]
Your hearts are troubled,and it is no sacrilege to let them be so …— Maren Tirabassi I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow.Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.― C.S. Lewis Your name is upon my tongueyour image is in my sightyour memory is in my […]
Texts for this week include Psalm 118 and Matthew 21, as well as “I am the way, the truth and the life” from Gospel of John. Questions to Consider: Questions raised up in commentary on Palm Sunday from Jan Richardson: Are we allowing ourselves to be swept along by circumstances, traveling our road by default? […]
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. — William Ernest Henley There […]
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in You, a joy. — Rumi Questions to consider about joy: What is the difference between joy and other states of being, such as happiness? What is essential to experience joy? When has joy surprised you? And All Be Made Well – Jan Richardson That […]
