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  • Brother’s K, Liturgy and Broken People

      “But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.” (Revelation 12:11) The work of the People One of the signs of a true artist is a willingness to work patiently and lovingly…

  • Fear as a Prison

    In The Way of Love, Anthony de Mello writes about the prisons we each live in created by layers of beliefs, ideas, habits and attachments and fears. Each layer is added by culture, traditionalisms, mass media, families, religions, etc. Each is a layer of prejudice that keeps us from being awake, leaves us reactionary and with…

  • Life is a symphony – Anthony de Mello

    I love this whole meditation on life and the sympathy from Anthony de Mello but this line in particular continues to ring in my heart. …You will no longer say to your friend, “How happy you have made me.” For in so saying you flatter his ego and manipulate him into wanting to please you…

  • “We” Is the Most Important Word – William Barber

    “‘We’ is the most important word in the social justice vocabulary. The issue is not what we can’t do, but what we CAN do when we stand together. With an upsurge in racism/hate crimes, criminalization of young black males, insensitivity to the poor, educational genocide, and the moral/economic cost of a war, we must STAND…

  • Listening and Acting In Quaker Communities

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8PABPq8AA&w=560&h=315] There is so much back and forth on Quaker process. So many jokes. So many who easily dismiss it because it “takes a long time.” And outcomes are all that REALLY matter. (I have plenty of examples of Quakers being faithful quickly, taking challenging stands, going against the flow of the status quo…