Chapel U Lunch and Learn: Bible and Spiritual Journaling --a way to experience your spiritual study more deeply. Elaine Davis of Illustrate Faith, our host, will take us step-by-step through the emerging art of spiritual journaling. Don't be intimidated! It's easy to begin and no artistic...
Legacy Writing Workshop: Saturday, August 26th | 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Free.Bring a snack to share and let’s get this started! Join writer Lisa Lorentz for a fun afternoon of sorting out our thoughts and beginning our memoirs -- a legacy for our descendants. Free starter journal | RSVP...
In messages over the past couple of weeks, I have referred to life as being both terrifying and amazing. Life today presents us with great uncertainties, and there is much to fear if we choose to live our lives afraid. Today, though, I was given the opportunity to experience the...
A steel-strong woman. An amazing teacher. A shining asset in our community. In case you missed the May 19 edition of the Indianapolis Recorder, let us catch you up! Our own Saundra Brown was recently featured in that newspaper for receiving the David Hanna Golden Touch Award by the...
We’ve been reading Scripture from First Peter, the letter attributed to the Apostle Peter but almost certainly written years after his death. The letter was written at a time of great persecution of those who chose to follow the examples and teachings of Jesus—in other words, not...
Dear Friends: The stories passed down from generation to generation had taught them that the soul leaves the body three days after death occurs. I don't know why. But Lazarus had been dead now for four days--long enough that his soul must have departed. And here came...
Dear Friends: You'll know where to find me at the party. I'm the guy in the corner, sitting on the stairway, outside on the deck or, maybe, talking with one other kindred soul. I'm the early-leaver, the one who engages sincerely with others but, on the inside, is dying to...
Dear Friends: Life takes unexpected turns; we can't see around the corners that we approach and, in truth, it is just as well that we cannot. I rounded a corner in the past week, one that was inevitable and, yet, dreaded. My sister--my big sister, Carol--fell gravely ill...
Kurt Vonnegut is an Indianapolis hero, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novels. Join us on Monday, February 13, as we honor this masterpiece. The events of February 13, 1945 are the catalyst and cataclysm for Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut...
Dear Friends: I wonder if you have ever heard the story of "The Fool and the Flying Ship" as it is narrated by the late Robin Williams. It is a marvelous Russian folktale brought to life by the master of endearing voices; the Tsar of Russia has promised the hand of his...