Day: January 22, 2019

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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 at Cape Town Refugee Centre, from October to December 2017. Working with refugees and having constantly interacted with teen female refugees who are pregnant or…

Getting Proud: A Strategy for Liberation

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[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 themselves a dog,and the nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them; will rain down in buckets But…

Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, I

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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. This was the first of four reflections on Dr. King’s “The Drum Major Instinct” sermon. In early January, I found a blog post by Kim…

Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, II

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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 was the second of four reflections on Dr. King’s “The Drum Major Instinct” sermon. Rev. Dr. King goes on to say: There comes a time…

Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, III

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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 was the third of four reflections on Dr. King’s “The Drum Major Instinct” sermon. The sacred words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s sermon…

Reflection on The Drum Major Instinct, IV

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