Share the Wealth: Rim to Rim to Rim
This Sunday Mark Cross and Taggart Long will share their peak experiences from last September doing a run/walk from the South rim of the Grand Canyon to the North rim and then back to the…
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Share the Wealth: L’Arche St. Louis
From our friend Justin Lorenz: Founded by Jean Vanier in France in 1964, L’Arche (French for “the Ark”) communities bear witness to the reality that persons with intellectual disabilities possess inherent qualities of welcome, wonderment, spirituality, and…
Share the Wealth with Annie Fitzgerald: Monday 14 April!
For our next Share the Wealth, Annie Fitzgerald will speak on the three pillars that make her life meaningful: Beauty, Contemplation, and Healing. Annie will invite us to reflect on how these essentials may be…
Share the Wealth: Poetry Night Sunday 6 April
April is National Poetry Month. In that spirit, select a couple of your favorites, bring several copies to pass around, and we’ll surely hear a variety of poets, themes, historical periods, and styles. Don’t be…
Share the Wealth: “Quiero ver” (Let me see), with Ale Vazquez
“There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.” Oscar A. Romero I will be reflecting on a semester in El Salvador during which I learned how to love others…
Share the Wealth: We Are Multitudes: A Life in Nursing, with Lucy Hedges and Tasha Morris
For our next Share the Wealth, Lucy Hedges and Tasha Morris will share stories, reflections and questions about the life path they have taken in the field of nursing. Tasha majored in nursing and minored…
Share the Wealth: A World of Opportunities for a Pakistani Immigrant, with Aroona Toor
Aroona Toor will share about her upbringing as an immigrant and her recent trips to Spain and Ethiopia. She will talk about what she has learned from her experiences and the importance and benefits of…
Share the Wealth This Coming SATURDAY: Winter Outreach, with Jerry and Marty King
From my friend Jerry King… Several years ago, one of Teka Childress’s outreach clients at BJC froze to death at a bus stop in the City, and Teka vowed that would not ever happen again…
Share the Wealth: Ayos Lang: Exploring Faith, Hope, and Love, with Nebu Kolenchery
In fall 2013 Nebu Kolenchery studied abroad in Manila, Philippines through the Casa Bayanihan program. Come join us as he shares his experience of being challenged and loved. During his time there, Nebu wrote: “I…
Share the Wealth with Johannes Wich-Schwarz: German-Jewish Poetry after the Holocaust
“The Not-Word: German-Jewish Poetry after the Holocaust” What does it mean to write in German as a Jewish author after the Holocaust? Can poetry recover, reclaim, and renew language after unspeakable trauma? How do we…