July 14, 2024
Spirit and Soul: Using Power and Authority to Be Accountable to Each Other
June 30, 2024
The Experience of Pride: Power, Peril and Paradox
June 16, 2024
Jay Smith on Being a Black Man in These Times
June 2, 2024
Ithaca City School Board Candidates: Barry Derfel, Eldred Harris, Moira Lang, Steve Cullen
May 19, 2024
Truth Telling About Raising Black and Bi-racial Children With White Moms
May 12, 2024
Jamel Gillette and Vicky Ruiz on Truth Telling About Parenting Bi-Racial Children
April 28, 2024
Truth Telling about Autism and Worship with Charles Fick
April 14, 2024
Tim LeCroy on Truth Telling Through Issues of Abuse
March 31, 2024
Here is a link to the study committee report on domestic abuse and violence chaired by Tim LeCroy. It provides some excellent recommendations and resources. Diane Langberg and Rachael Denhollendar both served on the the study committee with Tim.
Diane has just released another book related to abuse, When the Church Harms God’s People. She continues to build on her earlier work (2015), Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores
A couple of other important books on this theme:
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel Van Der Kolk
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse, by Chuck DeGroat
Kevin Basl on Poetry, Truth Telling and Life After War
March 17, 2024