Quote for Today: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collective bargaining. Dancing. Admitting our pain to someone, and …
Quote for Today: Thrity Umrigar
We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures …
Quote for Today: Martin Luther King, Jr
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all …
Quote for Today: Albert Camus
Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of …
Quote for Today: Brian Eno
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #13: George the Poet in London, England
Day 13 of the Globe-trotting travel series takes us to London, where George the Poet inspires us with an extremely articulate and hopeful case for collaboration in the face of …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #1: Hello from Houston, TX, USA
The first video of our Globe-trotting Travel Series comes from my house in Houston, TX. I hope you are well and happy! If you would like to send a video …
Quote for Today: Barbara Brown Taylor
Later, when I stood in front of an altar waving incense, I would remember standing in front of the bar at Dante’s waving cigarette smoke out of my face, and …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Odell
Flat outstretched upon a mound Of earth I lie; I press my ear Against its surface and I hear Far off and deep, the measured sound Of heart that beats …