A Healing Faith
In today’s gospel* Jesus challenges a faith that is defined more by adherence to human constructed proprieties than by an ever-expanding heart of love. He calls us to deep inner reflection, to listen and understand where we are coming from in our individual and corporate desires and ways and where God might be calling us […]
A Suffering Love
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” This old saying echoed around my childhood and most likely yours. And it’s a bold faced lie. Of the painful words I can still remember, cast in stone ages ago, the scars remain. I read them in my body like braille. In my work […]
Out Beyond Understanding – Nov. 11, 2022
“If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy: it is simply a reminder to stop thinking and start looking. Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all: perhaps we only need to wake up.” -Thomas Merton quoted by James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, p. 125
Callings – Festival Center Renovation Update, Pine Ridge: Words on the Wind, Wellspring seeking, Jim Knight 20 years with Jubilee Housing!
Callings – Summer 2022 The Summer 2022 issue of Callings, features Festival Center Director of Development Lindsay Fertig-Johnson detailing the latest update on the major renovations of The Festival Center. Take a virtual tour! Editor Marjory describes the inward work that Inward/Outward provides, and Matthias Everhope introduces his online art exhibit Pine Ridge: Words on the Wind, […]
