Spiritual Journey

EXPLORE, JOURNEY, Pilgrimages & Peregrinatio, Travel

Spiritual Journey: Celtic Way Pilgrimage to Iona

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It is this memory of acceptance and awe that I shared with the Iona Community while singing in the abbey that has stayed with me long after I left this sacred place. It is a spiritual feeling unrivaled by anything I have experienced at home before or since. No words can better sum up how I feel about my pilgrimage to Iona better than this verse we sang together from the hymn “All Are Welcome” on our last night – “all are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place!”

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Essays, Human Rights, JUSTICE, PONDER

MLK’s Timely Challenge to White Moderates, Especially Those in the Church

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Over 50 years ago on April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an open letter from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama where he was imprisoned. He wrote this letter to give challenge to those that would ask for civil rights to “wait”. He wrote this letter to those that said it was “inconvenient” timing for them to think or act in regard to the civil rights of the Black community. He wrote to those, especially those who were white, that sat in church pews and chairs across the country. He challenged the ideas of what it meant to be a person of faith, and his words challenge us today.

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