Presbyterian Parallel Event
57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
Church Center for the United Nations
6 March 2013
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Lent 27: Happy
Lent 26, 4th Sunday in Lent: Ate
Not quite to ate, but getting there.
Morningside Park, New York
3 November 2012
Lent 25: Faithful
United Nations Tour
Manhattan, New York
12 April 2011
Filed under Lent, Photo, United Nations
Lent 23: No
Chains, a lock, and snarling critters
bear the same message.
Manhattan, NY
8 October 2011
What is home?
A place
A spot on a map
A time
People
Relationships
A refuge
A sanctuary
Our castle
Where we can always return
Where we cannot go again
A place to land
A place to launch
Journey’s end
Journey’s beginning
What is home?
I don’t watch much television. But for some reason a few weeks ago, I recommendation made by my friend Sid Birt came back to me. I remembered sitting in my living room in Louisville watching Sid watch Battlestar Galactica: the Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos version. Sid’s recommendations have always led me to wonders and joy. I pondered the memory and then finally took the plunge.
Sid came through again. The show hooked me. Complex characters, splendid acting, intriguing, unpredictable story lines. It has it all. The show ponders significant questions that dance through the plot and episodes. Through it all, one remains: what is home?
Tonight, as the series draws to a close and the characters prepare to dismantle Galactica, characters spoke the question aloud.
What is home?
How do you answer?
See you along the Trail?
More on Wounded Knee
Two responses to my post on the fortieth anniversary of the siege of Wounded Knee (one online and one via email) provide new links to share. They add more depth to the story of the siege and of the present reality on Pine Ridge.
Red Cloud Indian School Stories
Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project
A Photographer Remembers Wounded Knee, 40 Years Later
See you along the Trail.
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights
We marched to remember
The 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women has started. Women from around the world gather in New York to witness and advocate for women’s rights. With other men, I seek to support them. This year’s focus is the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. Here’s a reflection I originally posted on my work blog:
In a broken and fearful world
the Spirit gives us courage
to pray without ceasing,
to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior,
to unmask idolatries in Church and culture,
to hear the voices of peoples long silenced,
and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace.
- A Brief Statement of Faith, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Participants in March 3 Ecumenical Women’s orientation for the 57th Commission on the Status of Women remembered our sisters whose voices are and have been silenced.
In worship, we remembered.
In prayer, we remembered.
In art, we remembered.
As we marched in silence from The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission to the Church Center for the United Nations, we remembered.
Remembering, may we act.
Photo by Andrew Nam Chul Osborne
Along the Graybeard Trail 