Speaker: M.Div.

The Butterfly Effect

Exploring how limiting the term “Pro-Life” to describe only human life is having devastating consequences to all life on our planet.

The importance of Thinking for Ourselves

On the anniversary of Sophia Lyon Fahs’ death we contemplate her gift of teaching and writing focused on a method of experiential learning that she hoped would enable children to develop their own ideas about religion and spirituality.

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde wrote, “Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.”
How to remain hopeful when we find ourselves overwhelmed by the weight of suffering in the world.

White Space and Invisible Ghettos

Elijah Anderson writes, “Since the end of the Civil Rights Movement, large numbers of black people have made their way into settings previously occupied only by whites, though their reception has been mixed. Overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, restaurants, and other public spaces remain. Black … read more.

An Infinitely Ordinary Day

Donella Meadows said, “No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them … read more.

The Love We Make…

Love has broader implications than just determining how we behave in our individual relationships; love is a belief that all people deserve freedom from oppression.