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Ministry of Language: Interview with Alex Kapitan
When Meadville Lombard launched this new website, we contacted Alex Kapitan, a queer genderqueer spiritual activist, intersectional educator and organizer, and radical copyeditor, to do intentional copyediting. We asked Alex […]
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Jussie Smollett, Believing the Victim, and Deep National Wounds
Jussie Smollett, the 36-year-old openly gay actor and singer known for his role as Jamal Lyon in the television drama Empire, will have his day of reckoning, for good or bad. […]
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The Drum Major Instinct: MLK Service at Meadville Lombard
Each week of our Intensives—when students travel to Chicago for week-long, in-person classwork on campus for a few weeks—starts with a Monday morning worship service. These services are planned and […]
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Empowering Refugees: Teen-Motherhood Project
Gur Milandou Mouanga is a student in our Master of Arts in Leadership Studies program who lives in Cape Town, South Africa. This project was conducted during his community site internship […]
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Getting Proud: A Strategy for Liberation
[This sermon was given as part of the 2019 January Ingathering Worship service: Breakthroughs and Second Chances.] I’ll begin with a poem from Eduardo Galeano, a writer and journalist from Uruguay. Fleas dream of buying […]
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Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, I
Ali K.C. Bell, a student in Community Studies Signature Course of our MDiv program, offered this reflection to fellow students, faculty, and staff during the MLK service at Meadville Lombard. […]
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Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, II
Joe Rettenmaier, a student in Leadership Studies Signature Course of our MDiv program, offered this reflection to fellow students, faculty, and staff during the MLK service at Meadville Lombard. His […]
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Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, III
Monica Kling-Garcia, a student in Community Studies Signature Course of our MDiv program, offered this reflection to fellow students, faculty, and staff during the MLK service at Meadville Lombard. Hers […]
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Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, IV
Mariela Perez-Simons, a student in Congregational Studies Signature Course of our MDiv program, offered this reflection to fellow students, faculty, and staff during the MLK service at Meadville Lombard. Hers […]
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Jussie Smollett, Believing the Victim, and Deep National Wounds
Last weekend, Dr. Pamela Lightsey, our Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, helped organize and participated in a protest and teach-in event, El Grito de la Frontera/The Cry From the Border, […]