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Wholeness Calls Out To Us: White Privilege & Racial Healing
by Kathryn White
In 1990, I was a graduate student in Boulder, Colorado, participating in the planning of International Women’s Week. I was within a year of coming out as a lesbian. The planning committee was a diverse group varying along dimensions of age, race, ethnicity, sexual preference, gender identity and class.
In one planning meeting a Latina turned to me, a white woman, and observed that I was bringing a privileged perspective to the evening’s discussion. I remember feeling confused and becoming defensive. I felt threatened, shocked. She didn’t know ...
Unprogrammed Singing
by David Wright
For the past fifteen years, I have been both a Quaker and a Sacred Harp singer. I have found the two practices to be consonant and mutually enriching, each enlarging and sustaining the other. Considering each through the lens of the other has helped me to learn and understand things about both of them. I have come to see Sacred Harp singing as representing an independent discovery and application of some of the truths experienced and professed by Quakers.
The Sacred Harp, first published in Georgia in 1844, was one of ...
Learn moreAn Articulation of Light
by Elizabeth Buckley
Does my spiritual life inform my work as an artist; or does the creative process of making art inform my spiritual life? Perhaps it is both, like an ongoing dialogue.
I seek to articulate the Light, the universal metaphor for the Life Force within and all around us; Light as a descriptor for that which is Sacred and Holy which permeates each breath. The language of articulation involves use of line, light and shadow, color, shape, rhythm and texture to describe the internal response to being alive. I work in ...