Morning Worship: ‘We Are Family’ through our spiritual DNA
Chautauqua had a deep influence on the Rev. Dwight D. Andrews. “My first revelation is that I am going to…
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From the Pulpit: Strive to be humble
Everyone knows that, to get ahead in life, to climb the corporate ladder and become successful in whatever you’ve set your sights, there are certain things you must do. You need an impressive resume or portfolio indicating that you have the right credentials. It also helps to network and connect with the folks who can help get you to where you are trying to go. As my father was fond of saying, “It’s not always what you know but who you know!”
Tippett, Unger open week of conversations on American consciousness
A changing, 21st-century American landscape warrants big questions and innovative ideas, and Krista Tippett will address these concepts with five guests this week.
From the Pulpit: God’s will is bigger than ‘theological narcissism’
What do you say to a friend who tells you that your job loss is part of God’s special plan for your life? Or, if it is stage three cervical cancer that is causing you to lie awake worrying at night, how do you respond to that well-intentioned soul who wants you to believe that God has a reason for everything?
Morning Worship: ‘Our choices give our lives timbre and substance, direction and meaning’
“It is incandescently clear that our choices are a picture of our life, our spiritual DNA, and no text illuminates that better than the book of Esther,” the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell said at the 10:45 a.m. Sunday morning worship service.
APYA coordinators reflect on relationship between evil and suffering and God
If there is anything that regularly challenges belief in God, it’s the existence of the ungodly. Evil and suffering have been frequent visitors to Chautauqua Institution, both as topics of discussion — for example, during the Interfaith Lecture Series’ week on emancipation — and as experiential realities. While some may think otherwise, Chautauqua isn’t paradise; evil and suffering happen here every day.
Morning Worship: Challenge systems that abuse and exploit women
“I want to talk about women in a global context, and specifically women at the Southern border,” the Rev. Daisy Machado said at the 9:15 a.m. Friday morning worship service. Her sermon topic was “A Woman of Value,” and the Scripture text was John 8:1-11, the story of the woman caught in adultery.
Morning Worship: ‘All we have is today’
“Change is not new. It has been going on since ‘darkness moved on the face of the deep,’ ” Bishop Vashti McKenzie said at Friday’s 9:15 a.m. morning worship service. “What is new is the current pace of change, the new concepts and ideas that surround us.”
Morning Worship: “We have to get beyond the word “my”‘
“You can’t read this section of Luke’s Gospel without bumping into God’s odd economics,” said the Rev. Barbara K. Lundblad at Monday’s morning worship service. “We have to get beyond the word ‘my,’ and Jesus knew this was terribly difficult.”
Morning Worship: ‘Jesus knew we would get distracted’
The 10:45 a.m. Sunday morning worship with the sacrament of Communion is a special worship service in the life of Chautauquans. This was the ninth annual service of this kind, a tradition started by the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell in 2004.
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