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Categories Archives: Compassionate Spirituality

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Sep2

Interview With Activist-Minister Anne Dunlap

  • Rachel Harding
  • Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, Religion, Vincent Harding

Interview with local Denver activist-minister Anne Dunlap – who talks about her family and Vincent Harding as inspirations for her racial justice work. Read More

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Sep15

Interview With Veteran Activist Ruby Sales

  • Gloria Smith
  • Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, Social Justice, Veterans/Elder Activists

This is a marvelous interview with Ruby Sales from Krista Tippett’s radio program and podcast, On Being. Click below and hear it for yourself when you get a chance! “I grew up in the heart of southern apartheid. And I’m not saying that I didn’...

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Nov2

Honoring the Water Mothers in Pittsburgh

  • vohadmin
  • Arts and Activism, Compassionate Spirituality, Environmental Justice, Featured, Joy!, Women's Wisdom

  October 27-29, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Veterans of Hope Project participated in three tremendously rich and full days in honor of the Water Mothers [Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio].  The events included a film screening and vibrant pan...

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Nov5

Native Women Activists at Standing Rock

  • vohadmin
  • Compassionate Spirituality, Environmental Justice, Featured, Indigenous Connections, Social Justice, Women's Wisdom

Very good article and videos featuring Native women activists who are using indigenous traditions of history, strength, organizing and ceremony to fight on behalf of water and land for everybody. Click here to see the videos and read the article.

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Nov16

Video Interview with Vincent Harding

  • vohadmin
  • Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, General, Movement History, Social Justice, Veterans/Elder Activists, Vincent Harding

  Eight days out from the recent presidential election, many folks are feeling the need for encouragement, even guidance from some of the elders of our country’s movements for social justice. There are a number of wonderful video interviews on ...

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Dec30

Vincent and Rachel Harding on Spirit, Art and Social Justice

  • vohadmin
  • Arts and Activism, Compassionate Spirituality, Education for Democracy, Social Justice, Spirit & Struggle

This is an interview from 2003 — the PBS series “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” came to Denver to talk to Rachel and her dad about the way art and spirituality feed struggles for social change.  You may enjoy what they had to say. As...

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Feb16

Vincent Harding: An African American Response to Immigration

  • vohadmin
  • Compassionate Spirituality, International Connections, Spirit & Struggle

My father wrote this two-page statement on immigration in 2008.  He used his experience as a historian and the commentary of his friend and comrade, Rev. Phil Lawson, to reflect on connections between the fugitive ancestors of African Americans and t...

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Mar11

Aishah Simmons in Denver at Shorter AME Church, March 26

  • vohadmin
  • #BlackLivesMatter, Arts and Activism, Compassionate Spirituality, Featured

Aishah Shahidah Simmons is coming to Denver, March 26 and 27 as the Rachel Noel Visiting Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver! Aishah is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian documentary filmmaker, activist, cultural worker and writer. H...

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Apr4

“Beyond Vietnam”

  • vohadmin
  • Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, General, International Connections, Movement History, Social Justice, Vincent Harding

About the Sermon — “Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence” The “Beyond Vietnam” sermon was drafted by historian and activist Vincent Gordon Harding.  Vincent Harding and his first wife, Rosemarie, were friends and colleagues of Ma...

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May20

Honoring Asians as Central to American Buddhism

  • vohadmin
  • Compassionate Spirituality, Featured, Religion

A great article about the need to address white supremacy and cultural appropriation in the interpretation of Buddhist history and teachings in the USA.

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