Sublime

Human beings are made for each other and no people can realize their full humanity except as they participate in its realization for others.

black insurrection in Detroit in the summer of 1967. I had moved the year before to teach in Adrian, Michigan, just seventy miles from Detroit. I remember the feeling of dread and absurdity as I asked myself, What has all this to do with Jesus Christ—his birth in Bethlehem, his baptism with and life among the poor, and his death and resurrection? I

What does the congregation come to worship thinking about, worried about, dealing with? What is your prayer for this congregation in this year? What has transpired in this community’s recent (or not-so-recent) past that affects how we are with each other and in ministry? What has transpired in our world that has an effect on people’s spiritual

the everyday world in which he lived and worked: his formation in the segregated South of the 1930s, his early losses—his father’s death at an early age; a sojourn that exchanged an insular southern life for an urban northern one; the ceaseless search for a spiritual life that greatly expanded but was ultimately rooted in the southern black

There has been for them little protection from the dominant controllers of society and even less protection

" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "

Howard Thurman