
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

Creation and its sacredness bind us together. To meditate on creation reminds us of our common ground which is a holy ground. “Just to be
I speak in my book, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth, of the need to fall in love at least three times

Community lies at the heart of Thurman’s mysticism. He says: The profoundest disclosure in the religious experience is the awareness that the individual is not

Julian warns us that our “faulty reason” can often, and especially when times are rough, render us “too blind to comprehend the wondrous wisdom of

In yesterday’s DM we meditated on Julian’s insistence to grow up and celebrate differences and diversity and to put love first. And how she recognized

Much of the commitment to and analysis of community that we find in the work of Howard Thurman and Dr. King derives from their African

I ended yesterday’s DM with a suggestion that we surrender our naivete about racism in American. The response of Americans of all races to march

The idea of the “Beloved Community” was central to the thinking of MLK jr. It appears from his earliest speeches and writings to his last

Before the murder of George Floyd by police officers, we were discussing new models of economics. We led with some ideas from David Korten.* Then
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