
Black Spirituality on Creation, Celebration, & Justice-Making
In the African tradition, the appropriate response to our union with sacred creation is to celebrate it through music, ritual, poetry, dance. Dona Marimba Richards
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In the African tradition, the appropriate response to our union with sacred creation is to celebrate it through music, ritual, poetry, dance. Dona Marimba Richards

M.C. wrote a poem about what potters do which ends this way. Potters like sun and starsperform their art–endowed with myth,they make the meal holy.

M.C. Richards, was potter, poet, painter, philosopher and a cherished teacher in my creation spirituality programs over many years. In her classic work Centering, she

We have been posing the question, “What does it mean to be a human being?” We have considered over several weeks the “10 C’s” of

In yesterday’s DM I shared news from the streets of Nepal about the impact of coronavirus there and how the Shanti community is responding to

In our previous two meditations we have considered Thomas Aquinas’s teaching that we resurrect when we become mystics again. On Easter Sunday I invoked the

In yesterday’s Meditation we celebrated Thomas Aquinas’ pre-modern understanding of art as pertaining to all our work and professions and emphasized what a breakthrough such

After we ran our meditation on the powerful work among lepers in the community of Shanti Leprahilfe Dortmund in Nepal we received the following letter

As part of the Via Creativa that leads to the Via Transformativa we are addressing the important question: Who is an artist? Yesterday we meditated
What if Ornstein and Naranjo were right forty years ago when they informed us that art as meditation is the way of the prophets? And
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