Great Souls Great Prayers: Rev. Robert Lee Hill
The first Sunday of the month, we will be lead by Rev. Robert Lee Hill in an exploration of Great Souls, Great Prayers which features a person of faith, their story and a daily exercise to learn more. Hill is the minister emeritus of Community Christian Church in Kansas City, Mo. (Details below)
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Howard Thurman
Sun., Feb. 7
Thurman was a highly influential African-American theologian with a firm and clear grasp of various religious traditions, the philosophy of pragmatism and the central tenets of the Social Gospel, to form the basis of a distinctive interfaith, interracial ministry.
Mary Oliver
Sun., March 7
Oliver was is an American poet who during her writing career focused on portraying the natural world with terse descriptions and breath-taking metaphors. She shared the simplicities of daily living in her poetry.
Rev. Fred Craddock
Sun., April 11
Craddock was well known for his efforts to rescue and renew the discipline of preaching in the 20th century. He was a master story teller and was very influential in shaping the theology and preaching of many preachers through his influence, writing and teaching.
Mohandas Gandhi
Sun., May 2
Gandhi was one of the singularly exceptional spiritual and political leaders human history has ever witnessed. He trained as a lawyer but developed the practice of non-violence as an effective and appropriate way to achieve social change.
Will Campbell
Sun., Sept. 12th
Campbell was a powerful witnesses for the Christian faith. A Southerner, he was deeply involved in the Civil Rights movement working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
William Sloane Coffin
Sun., Dec. 5th
William Sloane Coffin, Jr. life would lead him, willingly and gladly, to encounter all manner of human existence in a life of enthralling contrasts. He trained as a concert pianist, and he volunteered for service as a soldier in two wars. He became chaplain at Yale University, and he expressed the height of his homiletical powers as pastor of Riverside Church.
Annie Dillard
Sun., March 6th
In essays, memoirs, novels, poems, and literary criticism, Annie Dillard dazzles readers with wondrous and gracious ponderings and not infrequent spiritual investigations. She is at once mystical and scientific, elusive of categorization and embracing of tradition, as lyrical as a lily and as blunt as a two-by-four.
Toyohiko Kagawa
Sun., June 19th
Repeatedly nominated for Nobel Prizes B Literature (1947 and 1948) and Peace (1954 and 1955) Kagawa was one of the most exemplary organizers of practical Christianity that anyone in Japan or the rest of the world had ever seen. For most of his life, he regarded himself as an evangelist, and yet he became renowned as a social reformer, poet, preacher, and unwavering pacifist.
Saint Pope John XXIII
Sun., June 13
Pope John XXIII left an indelible mark on the Catholic Church leaving the church and the world awe-struck and changed forever. He presided over the important Second Vatican Council which emphasized love and peace.
Anne Lamott
Sun., Oct. 17th
Lamott is a writer whose non-fiction works deal with faith. A talented writer she shares were faith in simple accessible prose. She is a long-time feminist and liberal political activist.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Sun., Jan. 9th
Heschel combined the knowledge of a genius intellectual with the passion of a prophet and the lyricism of a poet. His scholarly work on the Hebrew prophets, his emphasis on the importance of interfaith dialogue, his reveling in the joys and challenges of Hasidic mysticism, and his descriptions of the nature of authentic worship stand today as beacons of insight and inspiration to millions, both Jews and non-Jews.
Maya Angelou
Sun., April 3rd
Throughout all of her adult life,Maya Angelou was a renaissance woman. It is hard to imagine any other woman in North America during her lifetime who was more qualified for that moniker. Singer, dancer, actor, playwright, screenwriter, composer, director, journalist, scholar, activist, philanthropist, memoirist, poet and essayist.
Buck O’Neil
Sun., Aug. 14th
Wendell Berry
Sun., July 11
Wendell Berry is a novelist, essayist, poet, and environmentalist of prodigious output, with more than 75 books and chapbooks to his credit. What is more remarkable is the astounding quality of his artistic endeavors, marking him as a writer of the first rank among the esteemed leaders of American letters.
St. Francis
Sun., Nov. 7th
St. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in human history and one of the most admired monks who lived nearly eight centuries ago.
Rosa Parks
Sun., Feb. 6th
Rosa Parks further civil rights for African-Americans with an act great courage. In a simple act of nonviolent resistance in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, she would ignite a protest against racial segregation in the U.S. and its racist foundation. Thereafter she would be known as "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.".
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sun., May 1st
Bonhoeffer would become one of the most admired Christians the world has ever seen. Though he grew up in comfortable bourgeois circumstances, and though his precocious intellect might have propelled him toward an enviable academic career, Bonhoeffer found the greatest vocational fulfillment and the broadest expression of his personal faith in the midst of resisting the evil of Nazism.