Callings – Peter Storey at Seekers, Heading Home Educational Fellowship, Carol Martin on Prison Accompaniment, Family Place Immigrant Support

Callings – Winter 2022 The latest Winter issue of Callings leads with Rev. Peter Storey’s recent visit to Seekers Church where he discussed his life’s ministry and his new book Protest at Midnight. Jeanne Marcus of Bread of Life Church describes the new Heading Home Educational Fellowship for “emerging scholars returning from incarceration”– which was covered in […]

Heading Home Education Fellowship

The Heading Home Education Fellowship was created by the Heading Home Mission Group of Bread of Life Church, which works to build networks of support for men and women returning home from incarceration. The Fellowship identifies and supports emerging scholars returning from incarceration who have the desire, capacity, and determination to successfully pursue academic studies […]

Seen

I saw a mother breastfeeding on the train. She covered herself as the child took what she was freely giving. A sacred sharing. Her tilted downward gaze, the shape of her eyes, the curl of her lips, glowed as if transfigured. Time stopped for one eternal moment, and on that specific day, in that specific place, I […]

A Way Through

If life is one big classroom, the subject for today is “resourcefulness.” It’s a story of mismanagement, misbehavior, and misdirection. A story of making a way out of no way. A story of grace.* Scrambling, scrounging, and soon-to-be-broke, the crooked manager comes up with the perfect plan. In a bold act of slight-of-hand, he gets caught. The […]