justice-heartedness
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Part 1 Today I aim to explore with you a proposed strategic vision for our justice work here at West Shore. It is a new story for us. I want to tell where it came from, what it’s for, and where it would take us should the congregation vote to approve it at the upcoming…
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Which Wolf Will Win?
Part 1 Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? Robin Wall Kimmerer, in her book Braiding Sweetgrass, brings us into indigenous wisdom teachings. It must feel so bittersweet to her, to usher her fellow Americans into this traditional…
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To be a spiritual being having a human experience: of the many meanings this carries, the one we will explore together today is the having of difficult conversations. Just for strangers to meet and begin a conversation–for the timing to be just right–this is already so difficult! But there is even more difficulty—unique difficulty—when you…
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Spanish poet Antonio Machado writes, Last night as I was sleeping I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? * Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous…
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A Vision for Church-Based Justice Work
Back in the 1940s, a man by the name of George Reavis, who was then Assistant Superintendent of the Cincinnati Public Schools, wanted to point out something about expectations–expectations that are institutionalized, expectations that become across-the-board standards. Expectations that are also unrealistic and unfair. He wrote a fable. Here it is: Once upon a time…
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