Reparations for Slavery Lecture + Recovery Cafe DC Breakfast – Thur. 11/14, Free
Jerry S. Parr Lecture/Dialogue Series Where: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, DCWhen: Thursday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m.Event is free Reception and light hors d’oeuvres at 6: 15 The Jerry S. Parr lecture series addresses the intersection of faith and socialchange. Reparations Closer to Home will feature a dialogue with Rev.Joseph M. […]
Every Child – Oct. 1, 2019
“Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.” ―Jean Vanier, Becoming Human
Turning Into Something – May 14, 2019
The light burns upward, it thickens and settles over the fields… Even before the sun itself hangs, disattached, in the blue air, I am touched everywhere by its ocean of yellow waves…. And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire— clearly I’m not needed, […]
Transformation – Apr. 3, 2019
“Divine Union takes place when we accept ourselves and our whole personal history just as we are, in total honesty, without anxiety or self recrimination. At the moment of utter powerlessness and, to us, the failure of everything the false self wanted to achieve, God joins us in our suffering and transforms it into our […]
