Festival Center – ED Intro, Online Classes, Art Show, Churches + AA/NA
A message from new Festival Center Executive Director Bill Mefford, who began on Feb. 3: “The values of the Festival Center are values that I hold dear and aspire to in all areas of my life: to be in mutual solidarity with those working for justice, to show generous hospitality to ALL people working for justice, to aid in […]
Fresh Meaning – Feb. 7, 2020
Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning– We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love. –Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, opening dedication for Owen Chopoksa Sapulpa
Keeping the Faith
When the path that Jesus’s followers were travelling got difficult, Jesus wanted to encourage them to not lose faith, so he told them a story about a widow who keeps knocking on the door of an unjust judge.* We don’t really know anything about the case, except that widows in that time and place were […]
Selflessness – Sept. 5, 2019
“The issue is not, “What must I do in order to secure my salvation?” but rather, “What does God require of me in response to the needs of others?” It is not, “How can I be virtuous?” but, “How can I participate in the struggle of the oppressed for a more just world?”” -Walter Wink, […]
