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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World
Dr. Mike Hogue, Professor of Theology, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, introduces his new book, American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World. [This is a transcript of the video below.] If […]
Blessed at PrideFest
“Get your blessing here! Personal Blessing given to you right now by our Blessing Booth Clergy!” Krystal called out to the passersby at PrideFest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Quizzically they would look over […]