Callings – Festival Center Reopens! New Wellspring Director Adam Greene, Easter Sunrise Service, +More
Callings – Spring 2023 The Spring 2023 issue of Callings is full of exciting updates from the community beginning with the long anticipated and greatly welcomed reopening of The Festival Center at 1640 Columbia Road, NW after its complete renovation. Director of Development Lindsay Fertig-Johnson details all of the improvements and program intentions looking forward. Adam Greene […]
Our Longing for Freedom – July 1, 2022
“We can commit to both humanizing our enemies and working against the ways our differences lead to the subjugation and suffering of others. The work for each of us is to discern the limits of difference [of opinion] and recognize when power turns these differences to enmity. In all of this, we are called to […]
A Goat in Sheep’s Clothing
As the election season drags endlessly onward and the US seems ever more divided into groups that too often don’t even recognize one another as human beings who are deserving of love and compassion, it’s easy to think that I know exactly who is a sheep and who is a goat. Obviously, the ones who […]
Differences – Sept. 11, 2019
“Being able to think differently from those around us and being able to function lovingly with people who think otherwise is the ultimate in human endeavor. It requires three things: a heart large enough to deal with conflict positively, enduringly and kindly; a keen sense of personal purpose, the notion that there is something on […]
