The farmer and poet, Wendell Berry, says that if we don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we are. Sense of place is a term that implies being…

Lakota Holy Man Black Elk was once telling a story to a group of people.  When he was done, a child asked him: “Is that true?”  Black Elk responded: “Is…

If you look at the major religious traditions today purely from a leadership standpoint, as in – who is ordained or up front, or making the decisions for the institutional…

Love is a word that gets used and over used, by our culture and ourselves!  This Black History Month  -- with a holiday dedicated to love half way through --…

Dr. Faith Morrison will trace voting rights in the United States from the nation’s founding up to the present day.  This lecture was prepared as part of local celebrations of the…

Frances Perkins, an early feminist, and later, the first woman to be in a presidential cabinet (Labor), will represent women and labor reform.

The ideal of a harmonious community emerging from unsettled forests and bustling cities is rooted in the very beginnings of the modern Judeo-Christian tradition.  It is expressed in the 1630 sermon…

Love is a word that gets used and over used, by our culture and ourselves!  This Black History Month -- with a holiday dedicated to love half way through --…

As we pass the one-year mark of the insurrection at our nation’s capital, many of us are still processing the event in our personal and civic lives.  hat were your…