“We are living in a time of transition and instability, and music and the arts offer us wonder and a radical expression of hope. They help us balance our lives in the presence of wonder,
At the top of Rabbi David A. Ingber’s information page of the Romemu website is a quote: “What we need is a living breathing Judaism, not an object of veneration kept in a locked box.
“What do we have to do to ensure the freedom and safety of all in a country where putting children in prison was no longer an option?” the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson asked the congregation at
The weather was a little iffy, with the possibility of rain, Thursday, July 28, during the ecumenical worship service in the Amphitheater. The Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson reassured the congregation that if it did rain, she
“I am calling us to be citizens of a country that does not yet exist,” the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson said. “The most hopeful thing for us is to pull up anchor from a world that
“The music has been a balm on my heart this week, starting with the Christmas in July service on Sunday evening. Today we walk through the valley in peace,” said the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson at
“These words always come back to me,” said the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson at the 9:15 a.m. Monday, July 25, morning ecumenical worship service in the Amphitheater. “The women — Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother
“Even in the beauty of this place, I do come with a heavy heart. You have been ministering to me with your smiles,” said the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson to the congregation at the 10:45 a.m.
In the fall of her junior year at Fisk University, the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson was asked to be the “makeshift student chaplain.” Someone had to choose the hymns and transpose music to play on the
“So, I was invited to speak to a gathering of foster grandparents in Orange County one summer. And for some reason they invited me back the next summer. After I spoke, a woman came up
“So, a guy named Daniel, an older guy who walks with a limp and has a cane, is in charge of the list, the list of people who sign up to talk with me,” said
Ya gotta love the Homeboys. “So, Manuel and Pancho and I were going to speak at Palm Desert High School,” said Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ, at the 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, morning ecumenical worship
Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ, uses stories about the Homeboys and Homegirls to give the congregation he is preaching for a glimpse of their humanity. The 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, July 19, morning worship service in the
One day Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ, was standing in front of the Homeboy store in Chinatown in Los Angeles. Johnnie, who had worked in the Homeboy Bakery, and now was a chef on his own,
“I was last here in 2019, and I wanted to wait to come again until I had published another book,” said Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ, at the 10:45 a.m. Sunday, July 17, service of worship and
When Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ, founder of Homeboy Industries, first came to Chautauqua in 2013, he told the Interfaith Lecture Series audience, “The measure of our compassion lies not in our service to those on