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Sep1

Valnizia de Ayrá – Candomblé Leader and Activist from Brazil

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  • Compassionate Spirituality, Diaspora, International Connections, Religion, Spirit & Struggle, Women's Wisdom

We are proud to announce the upcoming visit to the USA of Iyalorixá Valnizia de Ayrá (Mãe Val) — senior Candomblé priestess and community activist from Brazil.    Candomblé is a powerful, poetic and ancestral tradition developed by enslaved ...

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Oct17

Real Black Grandmothers — Wonderful Resource!!

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  • #BlackLivesMatter, Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, Indigenous Connections, Women's Wisdom

This is such a WONDERFUL resource. Just saw it today. It includes oral testimonies from a range of Black women talking about their lives, their children, their grandchildren and their struggles, joys and insights. You can read transcripts or listen to aud...

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Jan19

Candomblé and MLK

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  • #BlackLivesMatter, Compassionate Spirituality, Diaspora, Indigenous Connections, International Connections, Joy!, Religion, Spirit & Struggle, Veterans/Elder Activists

  In the photo above, from November 2015, Makota Valdina Pinto — an esteemed elder in the Angola Candomblé tradition — offers popcorn in a rite of cleansing and blessing to participants in an annual march for religious tolerance and res...

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Jan22

King and Faith: Urgency of Now

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  • #BlackLivesMatter, Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, Movement History, Veterans/Elder Activists

January 14, 2018 conversation with Profs. Clay Carson, Charles Long, Rachel Harding and Rev. Jay Williams at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA  

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Mar2

A new book on Vincent Harding and the Mennonites

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  • Featured, General, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Social Justice, Veterans/Elder Activists, Vincent Harding

Joanna Shenk, a writer, activist and minister, has published an extended interview with Vincent Harding focussed on his experiences with the Mennonite Church, during and after the time he and Rosemarie were representatives of the Mennonites to the south...

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Mar9

Interview with Activist and Educator Marcella Pendergrass

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  • #BlackLivesMatter, Featured, Veterans/Elder Activists

Marcella Pendergrass is a long-time racial and gender justice activist who grew up in Michigan and has been living in Seattle for many years.  She is an amazing fire-woman with a profound sense of justice and community.  She was nurtured in her activism...

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May17

Remnants: Creativity, Spirituality and Social Justice

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  • Arts and Activism, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Spirit & Struggle, Veterans/Elder Activists

On February 21, at the Stella Adler Studio in NYC, poet Sonia Sanchez, public theologian Ruby Sales and musician-producer Toshi Reagon joined Rachel E. Harding for a conversation about Remnants and the meaning of spirituality and social justice in 21st ...

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May23

Learning to Wait on the Wind

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  • Compassionate Spirituality, Education for Democracy, Featured

  This is a wonderful reflection on the benefits of patience, contemplation and attention to the natural rhythms of the world — in teaching and in life.   From the blog of Prof. Nancy Lynne Westfield on the website of the Wabash Center for T...

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Aug4

Is America Possible?

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  • #BlackLivesMatter, Arts and Activism, Compassionate Spirituality, Education for Democracy, Featured, Movement History, Vincent Harding

A new reprint of Vincent Harding’s 2007 essay.  The text continues in the trajectory of Harding’s earlier work — especially Hope and History, the book he wrote as a companion to the great Blackside/PBS series on the Southern Freedom M...

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Dec1

Art Work as Soul Work

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  • #BlackLivesMatter, Arts and Activism, Compassionate Spirituality, Education for Democracy, Featured, Social Justice

Artist Daniel Minter’s work is consistently wonderful — it teaches, transforms and sacralizes. This article is about Minter’s most recent art projects, including one that involves a ritual meal and poetry in honor of a eugenicized co...

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