Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Wilderness: Sharing and Reorientation “We Lived Happily During the War” Ilya Kamisky is a Ukrainian-American poet whose work voices the unease we feel at this moment. Though we must defend…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Reader, Structure Of Belonging A Little More Than Kin Richard Powers won the Pulitzer prize for Overstory, his novel tracing the essential connections between trees and humans. In this…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Structure Of Belonging Resting on and for the Earth It takes a lot of work to defend rest. Tricia Hersey is a public health activist who sees rest as…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Structure Of Belonging “I wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free” Nina Simone was born Feb 21, 1933 in the small foothills town of Tryon, NC. She helped give voice to…
Covenant: Moving from Contract to Commitment, Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Reader, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging “You need to ask ME!” Have you ever wondered how certain communities and sites receive their names? Some, like Chavis Park here in Raleigh, are…
