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OUR ANCESTORS, OUR BREATH Cultivating Spiritual Power for our Healing and Happiness ANNUAL MINDFULNESS RETREAT FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE TRADITION OF VENERABLE THICH NHAT HANH @ BLUE CLIFF MONASTERY PINE BUSH, NY WED, OCT 22 – SUN, OCT 26, 2008 Our fifth annual retreat offered to People of Color in the tradition of [...]
The New Year has arrived, bringing in 2008. Last night in Michigan, we finally saw some decent snow, nearly a foot of it. When I sit to write, I still find myself scribbling the date “11/07″. My mind is still in past and last year has been a whirlwind was changes. In lieu of new [...]
Yesterday, the Judson Memorial Church located in Manhattan hosted a conference called “How the Church Failed Us: A Way Back from Spiritual Violence“. Attendance was sparse, but I believe this was a result of poor outreach rather than disinterest and relevance of the issue. The conference brought people of Christian faith together to discuss how [...]
From Freire: Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is commitment to others.
It’s been a few days since MLK day. Often, I have found MLK Day celebrations to be romanticized interpretations of Dr. King’s life and work. I think this co-optation of his words, work and image have also turned many social activists off from the holiday, and I’ve seen only a few reflective posts in the [...]
The intersection of spirituality in activist work continues to be a growing interest of mine. Mostly because I am exploring it in my personal journey, but I also believe that activists need to find out what role spirituality has (or doesn’t have) in their lives, in order to sustain and deepen our work. Below are [...]
This weekend my friend and musician Joe Reilly is performing at the Leaven Center in Lyons, Michigan. If you’re in Michigan and would like to hear the kind of music that will fill your soul (no joke), you will definitely want to attend this event on Saturday. From the Heart: Joe Reilly Returns to the [...]
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