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By Kate Stoltzfus Pope Francis was on the docket Tuesday morning at the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C. “The State of LGBT Catholics in the Age of Pope Francis” was the first in what will be a series of panel discussions on issues in the Catholic faith. Theologian Mary E. Hunt of WATER (Women’s […]
“One Minute for Peace” with Mary E. Hunt “One Minute for Peace” is a project of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group located in Philadelphia (www.afsc.org). They have been doing peace work for nine decades. They received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 along with the British Quakers for their post-war efforts to […]
“To Know the Dark” with Geralyn McDowell Audio available here. To Dance with God: Family Ritual and Community Celebration by Gertrude Mueller Nelson “It is Advent, and, along with nature, we are a people waiting. Far out of the south, the winter light becomes thin and milky. The days grow shorter and colder and the nights […]
“Swing Low” with Mary E. Hunt featuring a poem by Jane Schaberg. Audio available here. “Swing Low” by Jane Schaberg After hours bent over Merkabah and Hekhalot texts and rabbinic and biblical materials over the apocrypha and various translations I expect/ I would like/ I hope for/ dream of a death with the horses of […]
“Water…the Beauty, the Power, the Strength of It” with Sr. Hope Bauerlin featuring the poem “The Waterfall” for May Swenson by Mary Oliver Audio available here. “The Waterfall” for May Swenson by Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems. Vol. 1. Boston: Beacon, 1992. pp. 19-20). “For all the said, I could not see the waterfall […]
“Mountain Beauty: Timeless and Deep Over the Millennia” with Janet L. Bohren featuring the poem “The Inexorable Refinement of Time” by Joan Chittister. Audio available here. “The Inexorable Refinement of Time” by Joan Chittister from For Everything a Season Plutarch wrote, “Time is the wisest of all counselors.” The truth is that time is all we […]
Contemplative Prayer/Meditation with Cathy Jaskey The search —for self,for wisdom,for love,for truth,for justice,for God —is strenuous and unending.We need good companionsin order to persevere in it.In good company,in a community of conviction,the quest never loses itsrelevance,its urgency,or its savor. -Kaye Ashe, OP
WATER’s September Contemplative Prayer/Meditation featured Judy Bond, who shared a passage by Maya Angelou. Poem and audio below. “What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise? The answer must be the experience shared between the unknowing majority (it) and the knowing minority (you). All of childhood’s […]
“The Journey Towards Justice” with Janet Bohren The poem Janet Bohren shared was by George R. Pasley, a poet and pastor at Ketchikan Presbyterian Church in Alaska. To read more of his poetry, visit his Facebook. Below is the poem and audio. “The Journey Towards Justice” by George R. Pasley The journey towards justice Is not […]
By Rebecca Alpert and Thelathia “Nikki” Young This post was first published on the Feminist Studies in Religion blog. In December 2014 the leaders of Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (commonly known as WATER) gathered a group of fourteen together at a bucolic Catholic retreat center in Maryland. Our task was to respond […]
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