Mary Lee Talbot

“There is no getting away from stories. There is a movie going on in our heads and we don’t understand that it is not the real world,” said the Very Rev. Alan Jones at the

"I have a vision that is coming into its own, that all the great religious traditions are coming together not to bash each other with dogma but to trade stories,” said the Very Rev. Alan Jones

“In our challenge to recover and reinvent the human, in living with radical individuality and radical communion, we have to face anger and resentment as people reject the idea of shared humanity. That makes telling

“The task of our time is to explore the reinvention of the human,” said the Very Rev. Alan Jones at the 9:15 a.m. Monday daily worship service. “We need radical individuality and radical mutuality and

“America is always obsessed with the pursuit of happiness; we are committed to the pursuit of happiness. That is why so many of us left our country of birth,” said the Very Rev. Alan Jones

In a review of the new biography of Dorothy Day by her granddaughter, James Parker, contributing editor at The Atlantic, wrote that saints see reality differently. For saints, reality is not “all what, or where,

“Education and faith are the Tigris and the Euphrates of our liberation: twin rivers at the source of our redemption.” That is the motto on the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III’s page on the Abyssinian

“This morning I am going to tie together Luke 12 and the 20th-century prophet and philosopher Curtis Mayfield, who wrote ‘People Get Ready.’ This was an anthem of the civil rights movement and the bluelight

“From generation to generation, we intersect with faith and race and in different ways claim our identity and power and subvert terrible texts. In the Great Migration, people rearranged the old spirituals into concert forms.

“I want to start with a quote from that great 20th-century prophet and philosopher James Brown, who said, ‘I feel good, I knew that I would.’ I want to link the lessons of the music with

“Church is church when it is Christ-centered, communal and confessional,” the Rev. Dwight D. Andrews said at the 9:15 a.m. Tuesday morning worship service in the Amphitheater. His sermon title was “When the Church is

“God is good and has a way of perfecting your preparation. I always trust him for every step,” said the Rev. Dwight D. Andrews at the 9:15 a.m. Monday morning worship service in the Amphitheater.

“I saw a sign on a church recently: Sin is Bad, God is Good, Details Inside. I am going to try and share some details,” said the Rev. Dwight D. Andrews at the 10:45 a.m. Sunday

“In this week on war and warriors, my expertise is in the messy realm of human relationships where peace and war begin. We can work to welcome peace, reconciliation and right relationship or not,” said

When the Rev. Dwight Andrews preached at Chautauqua Institution last summer, he promised he would play his saxophone more in church and that he would look for different ways to help the church grow. “I

“It is very difficult to see or understand a story absent the lens of our own circumstances. Our pride and privilege get in the way of making peace in fundamental ways,” said the Rev. Amy