Categories Archives: Compassionate Spirituality

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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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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  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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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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  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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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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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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Today I am honoring my daddy, Vincent Harding, who passed into glory on this day, five years ago – May 19, 2014. When I think about my daddy and my mama, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, at this juncture of my life, what comes most strongly to my mind is ...

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I. Recently, Rev. Jeri Wright and her father, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, asked me to join them in leading an early morning prayer fellowship.  They have been organizing this informal, online meeting since April, as a service of the Samuel Dewitt Proctor C...

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  In 1964, Rosemarie and Vincent Harding, spent some time in eastern Europe, traveling for the Mennonite Central Committee, sharing insights on theological and social issues from their experience in the Black Freedom movement in the South (civil righ...

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