Arts & Culture
Outer Banks
August 19, 2021
I was always waiting
For someone to take me
to this specific beach
Something about the empty stretches
Of churning waves shaping dunes
And no hotels hovering
Just...
Gray
May 31, 2020
Last night
Some of my city burned
This morning after surveying
The remains
I decided to finish painting
My dining room table: blue
And the chairs
Confederate gray
Irony not...
Daughters of Rizpah: Working Through Trauma
Buttry, Sharon A. and Daniel L. Buttry. Daughters of Rizpah: Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020.
Sharon and Dan Buttry...
World of Meaning
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Howard Thurman (April 10), an early twentieth century African-American theologian, poet, pastor, and activist...
“Food Bank” for Education
“Every child deserves the best opportunity to be their best self,” is the guiding principle behind Canada’s first “education bank” as envisioned by Theresa...
American Quilts and Social Change
The Toledo Museum of Art is hosting a unique collection of quilts, both historic and contemporary, for an exhibit it's calling "Radical Tradition: American...
Alex Trebek’s Wardrobe Gives Formerly Incarcerated New Start
When Jeopardy host Alex Trebek died of pancreatic cancer last year, he left behind not only legions of grieving fans but 300 neckties, 58...
Remembering the Radical Roots of Mother’s Day
Before the flowers, before the jewelry, before the cards and candy Mothers’ Day was a day of activism. In 1858 Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis...
Harriet Tubman’s Former Church Receives Grant
Salem Chapel British Methodist Episcopal church in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada is the oldest Black congregation in Ontario. Originally founded in 1814, it also...
Marking Time
Founded in 1971 as a non-profit center for contemporary art, New York City’s MoMA PS1 is the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit space for...
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Outer Banks
August 19, 2021
I was always waiting
For someone to take me
to this specific beach
Something about the empty stretches
Of churning waves shaping dunes
And no hotels hovering
Just...
Building Bridges Through Community Mapping
In an increasingly fragmented and rapidly changing world, churches and other service organizations are struggling to understand and connect with the communities they seek...
Declaring Our Independence
The two nations on the North American continent that celebrate independence from Great Britain do so three days apart each year. Here in Toronto, this...
Abide These Three: Love
Text: John 13:33-5; 14-15-21
The third sermon in the sermon series “Abide These Three: Faith, Hope, and Love.”
A partial transcript of the sermon.
...Love is...
