“We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living; we live ourselves into a new way of thinking.” – Richard Rohr
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Author: Joanne Corey
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Lessons from Selma, Ferguson, and Seneca Lake
This morning I watched coverage on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the first attempt at the voting rights march in Selma, Alabama. I am re-blogging my post from January after I saw the film “Selma” which draws together the story of the march with recent events.
– JC
When the events depicted in the film Selma occurred, I was a four-year-old girl in rural New England. I do remember seeing Dr. King on the news when I was a bit older and definitely remember his assassination in 1968 in the midst of the Memphis strike by black public works employees who were facing discrimination. It was incomprehensible – then and now – that a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of such an important social movement could have been only 39 when he died. Because he was such a force and martyred so young, his legacy became a legend, masking his complexity as a human being. While the public life of some of those around King, such as Ambassador Andrew Young and Rep. John Lewis, was decades long and vital to keeping the civil rights movement going forward while remembered its momentous, if painful, past, King’s life has…
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Equal In Faith
Posting this video in honor of International Women’s Day. It advocates for the full inclusion of women in religious and spiritual leadership, as well as for equality in all areas of society. I believe that God made us #EqualInFaith.
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SoCS: field trip
My daugher T was scheduled to go to Dominica for ten days to do field work with her tropical ecology class. They were scheduled to leave Syracuse early Thursday morning to fly to Newark, the first of four legs to get them to the island. Because of the storm hitting the coast, the flight was cancelled Wednesday evening. The professors told them to stay tuned and the travel agents went to work to try to rebook. Unfortunately, the earliest that they could re-book the group was Wednesday, so the trip had to be cancelled. It was a major bummer, given that they spent the first half of the semester learning about the ecology there and prepping for the trip, including things like getting immunized for typhoid fever.
The silver lining for us is that T is now home for spring break. It’s nice for us and for her grandparents, who have been battling various maladies this winter.
And we are sure that T won’t contract typhus…
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One-Liner Wednesday: liberal
“I would feel that a liberal was a person who kept an open mind, was willing to meet new questions with new solutions, and felt that you could move forwards, you didn’t have to always look backwards and be afraid.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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MS Awareness month
Sharing in honor of a friend who lives with MS and all those with MS, as well as their health teams, researchers, families, and friends.
In honor of my wonderful friends that bravely fight every day not just one month a year.
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An ancient call for peace
In my church, today is the Second Sunday of Lent, and, in the current cycle of readings, the Hebrew Scripture passage is from Genesis 22 about Abraham planning to but then not sacrificing his son Isaac.
The deacon who preached this morning pointed out that the Canaanites among whom Abraham lived practiced human sacrifice, specifically of children, so that, by telling Abraham not to kill Isaac, God was highlighting a difference between God and other gods that were of the contemporary culture.
He continued explaining that the prospect of the call to sacrifice Isaac is so disturbing that modern scholars decided to see how the ancient Jewish scholars interpreted the passage. The ancient understanding of this passage was that God did not want any killing in the name of God. Not just sacrificial killing, or killing of children, or killing of those of one’s own religious tradition, but any killing at all.
It is humbling and horrifying that the Abrahamic faiths did not heed this call over the millennia and into the present day. So many millions of lives lost “in the name of God” with more being added each day.
My prayer today is for the mercy of God and the universal recognition that we are called to peace, love, and respect for one another, not killing.
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Margaret Anna Fridays – on human trafficking
Although I am late for the official media campaign, I wanted to share this movingl blog post from Sister Susan. I hope that the End Modern Slavery Initiative Act of 2015 will be passed in Congress and signed into law.
– JC
Margaret Anna Fridays – on human trafficking.
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SoCS: My friend Angie
I have written before about my friend Angie. I’m thinking of her today because next month will be the tenth anniversary of her death. I’m thinking about things we missed over these years, such as supporting each other as our eldest children married. If she were still alive, she would probably be on the school board still, and I’d have a clue about what is happening in the school system, something that is hard to do when you no longer have children young enough to be in K-12. She would have supported me through the health travails of our elders and I would have supported her in the same way. Even though she has been gone for a long time, I still miss her.
Friends are forever.
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This week’s prompt is: acquaint and/or friend.
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One-Liner Wednesday: silence
“Not speaking is just about the most intimate thing you can do.”
– Teller of magician duo Penn & Teller on CBS Sunday Morning, January 25, 2015. For those who aren’t familiar with their work, Teller never speaks when performing, unlike the highly voluble Penn.
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Joanne Corey 