Article Archive for October 2020
Dear Friends,
In the midst of many challenges that threaten to overwhelm us, the publishing team of The Living Pulpit is filled with thanksgiving as we bring online this issue on dreams and visions. We are reminded yet …
Audacious Dreams by Rev. Dr. LaKeesha Walrond
Dreams and Visions: A Historical Perspective by Dr. Albrecht Classen
“Do Not Be Afraid” by Elder Susan Converse
Book Review: Talking to Strangers by Rev. Dr. Neal D. Presa
Book Review: Preaching about Racism by Dr. …
As a child, my mother often encouraged me to dream. She would add, “and if you are going to dream at all, dream big.” Her guidance helped me understand that while our current reality is …
The greatest modern psychologists have claimed that every dream carries a deep revelation about our subconscious. Each dream only needs to be interpreted properly for us to understand the message contained in it. But Sigmund …
A little boy who held a sign that read “I MATTER” stood among a throng of protestors who were streaming down the highway, chanting “No Justice! No Peace!” This scene has played again and again …
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 386pp. $17.58
New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell disarms our assumptions in a way that …
Carolyn B. Helsel. Preaching about Racism: A Guide for Faith Leaders. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2018. 132pp. $33.95.
In 2020 many of us sense a nagging call to address racism from the pulpit. Unfortunately, we do not have …
The American dream is a big house in the suburbs, a white picket fence, 2.5 kids and an SUV in the driveway. The American dream is to make it all by yourself and owe nothing …
In mid-March, as news of the pandemic began sweeping our country, our congregation closed the doors of our building and began meeting online. Each week, I recorded three short videos to encourage our relatively aged …
In the early 1920s, something powerful was happening in Harlem, New York. In a period later esteemed the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem became a cultural mecca for African American literature, music, art, and intellectual thought.[i]Disillusioned by the failed promises of economic reconstruction and continued …
God-given dreams/visions
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
—Gen. 15:1 [similarly, to Jacob at 31:11 and …
The nature of dreams
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
—Khalil Gibran
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
—Edgar Allan Poe
Hope is a waking dream.
—Aristotle
Why does …
