“Elijah put aside his preconceived notions of how God works in order to receive God’s blessings — even if those blessings came from ravens,” said the Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon on Thursday, July 9, on
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“A lifetime of service to others is a life well spent for some people,” said the Rev. Traci deVon Blackmon in her homily on Wednesday, July 8. “The power of faithfulness on every level of
“Story matters. We have thousands of years of sacred story, stories of the peoples’ journey with God,” said the Rev. Traci DeVon Blackmon. “Stories shape our perception, and it is interesting what stories we choose
The Apostle Peter declared at Pentecost what the prophet Joel said would become standard, that “all believers will be empowered to prophesy, to dream what will come next,” said the Rev. Traci Blackmon. “The Spirit
“What to me is the Fourth of July?” asked the Rev. Traci DeVon Blackmon. “Will its great principles and social justice be extended to people like me? We live in a nation where freedom has
Blackmon A West African proverb sits at the top of the Rev. Traci DeVon Blackmon’s biographical profile on the United Church of Christ Website: “Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be
“The mystics wrote more extensively about the Song of Solomon, or called the Song of Songs, than any other book in the Bible,” said the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas. “We often hear it at weddings and
“What do you long for most? What is most precious to you?” the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas asked the viewers of the Thursday, July 2, morning devotional service on CHQ Assembly. “Some Christians find this question
“In this precarious time, it is good to go back to basics and claim the deep wisdom of our faith traditions,” said the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas for the Wednesday, July 1, morning devotional on CHQ
“How do we pray when the land itself is mourning, the people languish, and even the fish are perishing? How do we pray about the things breaking our hearts — the bleached coral, acidic oceans
“We are in a social and ecological emergency, and the only way to protect the earth is to transform our society with unprecedented speed,” said the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas. She was preaching at the morning
Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas addresses Chautauquans for the first time virtually during the Service of Worship and Sermon on Sunday, June 28. Bullitt-Jonas recorded her sermon titled "Faith for the Earth: Love and Fear in a
As the first chaplain-in-residence for the 2020 CHQ Assembly, the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas is hoping to “provide people with emotional and spiritual resilience” in her week of sermons. “I want to give them practices and
For the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, it doesn’t matter if someone has spent one day, one week or the entire summer at Chautauqua. The question, he said, is, “What do you leave wanting to
Today, 25,000 children will die of hunger and preventable diseases,” Miguel De La Torre said. “Tomorrow, 25,000 children will die of hunger and preventable diseases. Yesterday, 25,000 children died of hunger and preventable diseases.” De
Jesus spoke more about money than any other topic — more than the Kingdom of God, more than sexuality,” Miguel A. De La Torre said at the 9:15 a.m. Thursday Ecumenical Service in the Amphitheater.