Month: October 2015

  • Moving Deeper Still: Three Roots of Community

    How do we go deeper into this community? I have, for most of my life, been someone trying to organize community, bringing people together, and building connections. For a lot of that time, I put emphasis on showing up for one another: presence is key I would say. I got a monumental lesson in presence…

  • The Imagined Rebellion – Kierkegaard

    A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere. In the present age a rebellion is, of all things, the most unthinkable. Such an expression of strength would seem ridiculous to the calculating intelligence of our times. On the…

  • Connecting Learning to Tradition

    There is an interesting article on how various people find themselves studying religion in the NY Times today. In the article, they talk about how attaching religious conversation and shared language to a tradition helps create a place to build community and that it is keeping these things connected that is one of the gifts and…

  • If God is Love – Peggy Morrison

    “If God is Love, then all Love is of God. Where Love is—there God is—without exception. If you truly love, or are loved, by anyone, then God is in that relationship, named or unnamed. God touches them through your love. And because God is love, and love is indestructible, as long as you love them…

  • Love In the Face of Great Odds

    This is a message I brought to Guilford College’s Quaker Leadership Scholars Program  meeting for worship Friday, October 2, 215. A reflection on Luke 6:27-32. This evening I wanted to talk briefly with you about love. I realize picking this topic puts me in danger on falling into making truisms like “Love is a Verb,” “love…