This video was produced by Hellmann’s (yup, the mayonnaise people!) It tells the story of the food on our tables and why we’re in danger of losing our food sustainability. A Food & Water First “Must Watch.”
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Food and Water First is a local initiative that has morphed int a larger movement with a mandate to put farmland and the water that feeds it - and us - first. it is a feet on the grounds movement, and you - whoever you are and where ever you live - can get involved.
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The season of Eastertide is the season of resurrection, the season of new life. Arriving at the same time as the emergence of spring, we have all around us evidence that from the cold, hard, seemingly barren ground, astonishing wonders may emerge. Wendell Berry has learned from the earth and offers us his manifesto for practicing resurrection.
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Joan Chittister, with her straight forward manner and deep love of God and people, offers a modern, intelligent, Christian spirituality one can live with day by day. Here are three different podcasts of interviews with sister Chittister, centred around her books, all of which reflect a Christian Spirituality for the 21st Century.
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Sr. Joan Chittister is one of the most articulate social analysts and influential religious leader of our times.. In her message, Contemplation in the Midst of Chaos, Sr. Chittister, O.S.B., reflects on what it means to be spiritual, to be contemplative, in the midst of the private chaos that sometimes clutters our lives.
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Mother and God, to you we sing, wide is your womb, warm is your wing. In you we live, move and are fed, Sweet flowing milk, life giving bread. Mother and God to you we bring, All broken hearts, all broken wings
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David Whyte is an Anglo-Irish poet who writes and teaches poetry, and its powerfully transformative nature. He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality.” His beloved poem, Everything is Waiting for You, invite us into this conversation.
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While all members share in Christ’s ministry, the church from its earliest days has recognized that God calls some to exercise specific gifts of leadership, both paid and voluntary. These ministries of leadership are based in God’s call and therefore serve to remind the community to whom we belong.
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The black church is a musical bootcamp. Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, Anderson Paak all found their start singing in the church. Sound Field (PBS) travels to Chicago, the birthplace of gospel music, chatting with gospel artist, Donald Lawrence and then to Orlando to meet singer Tye Tribbett at his church.
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Known as the “Moses of her people,” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves.
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Black Gospel Music has a long standing tradition in the Christian Church, with its powerful message and joyous sense of celebration. Contemporary artists of the 21st century offer that same emotionally rich experience with modern rhythm and blues arrangements. Such rich offerings.
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The heart of the Christian faith is the hope of new possibilities in the midst of failure and despair. That is the Easter story - that something new and never imagined emerges from the dying out of something known. Enjoy the music of celebration.
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The early community that followed Jesus was a community of practice. Jesus’ followers did not just sit around the campfire and listen to lectures on Christian theology. They listened to stories that taught them how to act toward one another, and what to do in the world.
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The Easter Triduum begins on Maundy Thursday evening, includes Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and ends on on the evening of Easter Day. We are called, through this holy time, to stay steady, to stay awake, to bear the sorrow, to adjust to the darkness, and then, to celebrate all that we do not understand.
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Amid the on going struggles world wide to find compassion and grace in the midst of violence, Christians celebrate the power of courage and love in the midst of adversity and hatred. Good Friday is a challenging day, for a struggling, yet still beautiful world.
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Lent is a time of reflection. Here, to aid in your contemplation - a prayer, a theological video offering with Peter Rollins, two musical offerings, UCC Moderator Richard Bott’s Lenten message and a bumper sticker.
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The prayers found here are called Nocturnes. They, and the music that accompanies them, are designed to resonate with those dimmed times when the burdens of life drain much of the light away. These Nocturnes afford a time of stillness in the midst of the dark.
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Macrina Wiederkehr’s wonderful book, Seven Sacred Pauses, is an invitation to learn, and practice, the ancient spiritual discipline of praying the hours. Macrina offers this practice as a unifying place for all faith traditions, and those with no formal faith at all. She sees it as a place for all of us to live our our fullest lives.
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Contemplation, in its simplest analysis, is the spiritual arena that lies beyond our own personal efforts, where knowledge exists that cannot be obtained through the well worn pathways of intellectual acquisition.
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We stretch our wings, head thrown back in the effort it takes to open ourselves to all that might be, not knowing whose fingertips we will touch in the aching desire to connect with another.
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