By Joyce D. Sohl It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, Most High; to proclaim your loyal love in the morning, your faithfulness at nighttime with the ten-stringed harp, with the melody of the lyre because you’ve made...
Read MoreBy Anita Peebles Now, before we start staking out Best Buy to get the newest iPhone and computer games and TVs courtesy of Black Friday savings, let’s think about how the day got its name. There are several origin stories to consider. One of the most...
Read MoreBy Caroline Adams A few days ago, I had the opportunity to attend a round table panel discussion at Vanderbilt University on the role of arts in theological education. Represented on the panel were professors of art and religion from most of the local institutions of...
Read MoreBy Marie Campbell Mapped into a landscape with multiple petroleum companies, the “Nations” neighborhood reminds me a little bit of home. I grew up in a small town in Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, sandwiched between a shutdown General Electric plant, a paper...
Read MorePhoto credit: http://www.mossandstonegardens.com/blog/moss-trending-the-signature-of-all-things-by-elizabeth-gilbert/ By Chandra Allen On the second Monday in November, 14 women gathered for More Than A Book Club at Scarritt Bennett Center. We were discussing The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. The Signature of All Things is a novel about the search...
Read MoreBy Suha Ahmad Alsyoufi Finding the best language to help people talk about racism isn’t easy. How can we have a productive dialogue when words such as people of color, minorities, cultural groups, institutional racism or white privilege are words that can make us feel vulnerable? Racism...
Read MoreBy Jaime Zito In the third grade, my favorite place in the world was my school library. I went to a small charter school, so all of the buildings were just “portables” and the library could only fit about ten bookcases, a small table, and a...
Read MoreBy Jackie L. Halstead Scarritt Bennett Center is offering training in the ministry of spiritual direction. It is a fifteen-month program that involves reading, two residencies on campus, supervision of direction, and writing. The spiritual direction program is founded on contemplative traditions and directed by Randy Harris...
Read MoreBy Steve Gateley Scarritt Bennett Center is a campus with many diverse activities! Of course, it’s a place where folks stay in one of our many campus housing units for pleasure or as a guest attending programing either on campus or possibly off. And yes, I...
Read MorePhoto credit: The Nutrition Post (www.thenutritionpost.com, Oct. 2013) By Chandra Allen “The obstacles that stand in the way of better health for women are not primarily technical or medical in nature. They are social and political, and the two go together.“ Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization,...
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