- Lenten Meditation Women’s Month: A Cry That Echoes Through Time
A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. Jeremiah 31:15 Lent is a season of reflection, repentance, and remembrance. It is a time when…
- Week 5: Women’s Empowerment Month
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
- Week 4: Women’s Empowerment Month
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
- Week 3: Women’s Empowerment Month
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
- A Lenten Meditation for Women’s Month: Where do you sit?
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. Luke 10:39 Read Luke 10:38-42 Many women today live in Martha’s world juggling responsibilities, responding to constant demands, and carrying the invisible labor of leadership, caregiving, and community service. The…
- Scarritt Bennett Center & Nashville Black Music Association Host 3rd Annual Black Sacred Music Weekend
Scholars, students, singers and sacred music aficionados gathered in the historic Wightman Chapel and Harambee Auditorium on the Scarritt Bennett Center campus for the 3rd Annual Black Sacred Music Weekend (BSMW). On the evening of Friday March 27th, the W. Crimm Singers kicked off the…
- A Litany of Service . Linda Furtado
By Beth A. StockwellSecretary, TWK Conference United Women in Faith Editor’s note: Rev. Linda Furtado is an integral part of Scarritt Bennett Center where we develop and host programming that educates and activates people to become engaged with women’s empowerment, racial justice, transformative education and…
- RJM Moment: Teresa L. Fry Brown . When Sacred Speech Shapes a Just World
Editor’s note: Author Rev. Kelli X serves as the Scarritt Bennett Director of Racial Justice Ministries (RJM). At Scarritt Bennett Center, our commitments to Racial Justice, Women’s Empowerment, Transformative Education, and Spiritual Formation are not separate lanes. They intersect. They shape how we lead, how…
- Lenten Meditation: A Clean Heart
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 Read: Psalm 51:1-12 Psalm 51 is David’s prayer of deep contrition after recognizing the weight of his own wrongdoing. It is a psalm of confession but also a…
- Jesse Jackson: Expanding the Moral Imagination of American Democracy
Today we honor the life and legacy of Jesse Jackson—pastor, organizer, presidential candidate, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Rev. Jackson expanded the moral imagination of American democracy. Through the Rainbow Coalition, he brought together Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, poor white, labor, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities…
- Week 2: Women’s Empowerment Month
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
- Ella Baker: Building Power Without Hierarchy
Ella Baker believed deeply in the wisdom of ordinary people. While many celebrated charismatic leaders, Baker quietly organized communities, nurtured young leaders, and rejected systems that concentrated power in the hands of a few. She taught that injustice thrives when people are made to believe they…
- Legacy of Hope: An Ash Wednesday Reflection in Honor of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrew 11:1 At Scarritt Bennett Center, where faith and justice have long walked hand in hand, we pause to honor the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.: preacher,…
- Week 1: Women’s Empowerment Month
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
- North Nashville Family Loses Home Minutes
After Power Comes Back On Editor’s note: News Channel 4 reporter Steve Mehling covered the aftermath of Rickey Washington’s Family house fire. Check out his coverage and donate to help Rickey, his Mom and Dad rebuild. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A North Nashville family lost…
- Guard Your Heart
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 Proverbs 4:23 reminds us that the heart is the command center of our spiritual, emotional, and moral life. In Hebrew thought, the heart (lev) and the mind are deeply connected,…
- James Baldwin: Facing the Truth We Fear
By Rev Kelli X, Director of Racial Justice Ministries James Baldwin insisted that America’s deepest crisis was not political but spiritual. He warned that when a nation refuses to reckon with its history, it turns fear inward and outward—scapegoating the vulnerable rather than confronting its own…
- Persist in Love
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 What Does It Mean to Persist in Love? When Peter urges believers “above all” to love deeply, he is calling us to make love the highest priority even…
- March is Women’s History Month: Join us for 31 Days of Prayer!
We are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer together as we start this…
- Help the Washington Family Rebuild After the Fire
If you have ever been to Community Lunch at Scarritt Bennett, chances are you know Rickey Washington – the Mayor of Community Lunch. Rickey wants to know your drink order, answers any dietary questions about lunch you may have, and can keep you up to…
- Ida B. Wells: Truth-Telling as Sacred Resistance
By Rev. Kelli X, Director of Racial Justice Ministries, Scarritt Bennett Center Ida B. Wells, American journalist, educator, civil rights and women’s rights activist, understood something America still struggles to accept: violence does not need chaos to thrive—it only needs lies. In the late 19th century,…
- Wightman Chapel Update: We’re Warming Up!
Like most of Nashville, Scarritt Bennett Center lost power during the snow and ice that blanketed our region last weekend left homes and business with out heat, wifi and in some cases water. Although much of the Scarritt campus is back up and running, we…
- Persist in the Dream
“Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Galatians 6:9 April 25, 1957, when Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was denied access to speak at Vanderbilt University because of the color of…
- Need a Real ID? Scarritt Bennett Has You Covered
If you have friends and family that have stood in line for hours to get a Real ID, we have great news that will make getting your own Real ID much less of a headache and time commitment. Scarritt Bennett Center will be hosting a…
- Legacy is in Your Hand!
Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand? Exodus 4:2 On Sunday, January 11th, Scarritt Bennett hosted the Women of Faith panel in conjunction with the Interdenominational Minister’s Fellowship (IMF) MLK Day Week activities. The panel discussion was entitled Legacy in…
- Women of Faith Panel: Carrying the Legacy in This Time
The 5th Annual Interdenominational Ministers of Faith (IMF) Women of Faith Panel kicked off a week of events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 11th. Scarritt Bennett Center Racial Justice Ministries hosted the discussion, which was a part of MLK Week, produced by IMF. …
- Renew! An Epiphany Meditation for the New Year
Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 Imagine waking…
- Deep Gratitude: A Look Back at 2025
Dear Friends, As this year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with deep gratitude – a gratitude for the journey we have shared, for the community we continue to nurture, and for you. This year has reminded us that hope is not passive….
- Fourth week of Advent Meditation: The Standard of Love
As we enter the final week of Advent, the glow of candlelight reminds us that LOVE has come to dwell among us. In a world filled with hurry, anxiety, comparison, grief, and division, love can feel costly but that is what makes it holy. Throughout…
A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. Jeremiah 31:15 Lent is a season of reflection, repentance, and remembrance. It is a time when…
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. Luke 10:39 Read Luke 10:38-42 Many women today live in Martha’s world juggling responsibilities, responding to constant demands, and carrying the invisible labor of leadership, caregiving, and community service. The…
Scholars, students, singers and sacred music aficionados gathered in the historic Wightman Chapel and Harambee Auditorium on the Scarritt Bennett Center campus for the 3rd Annual Black Sacred Music Weekend (BSMW). On the evening of Friday March 27th, the W. Crimm Singers kicked off the…
By Beth A. StockwellSecretary, TWK Conference United Women in Faith Editor’s note: Rev. Linda Furtado is an integral part of Scarritt Bennett Center where we develop and host programming that educates and activates people to become engaged with women’s empowerment, racial justice, transformative education and…
Editor’s note: Author Rev. Kelli X serves as the Scarritt Bennett Director of Racial Justice Ministries (RJM). At Scarritt Bennett Center, our commitments to Racial Justice, Women’s Empowerment, Transformative Education, and Spiritual Formation are not separate lanes. They intersect. They shape how we lead, how…
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 Read: Psalm 51:1-12 Psalm 51 is David’s prayer of deep contrition after recognizing the weight of his own wrongdoing. It is a psalm of confession but also a…
Today we honor the life and legacy of Jesse Jackson—pastor, organizer, presidential candidate, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Rev. Jackson expanded the moral imagination of American democracy. Through the Rainbow Coalition, he brought together Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, poor white, labor, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities…
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
Ella Baker believed deeply in the wisdom of ordinary people. While many celebrated charismatic leaders, Baker quietly organized communities, nurtured young leaders, and rejected systems that concentrated power in the hands of a few. She taught that injustice thrives when people are made to believe they…
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrew 11:1 At Scarritt Bennett Center, where faith and justice have long walked hand in hand, we pause to honor the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.: preacher,…
During the month of March we are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer…
After Power Comes Back On Editor’s note: News Channel 4 reporter Steve Mehling covered the aftermath of Rickey Washington’s Family house fire. Check out his coverage and donate to help Rickey, his Mom and Dad rebuild. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A North Nashville family lost…
By Rev Kelli X, Director of Racial Justice Ministries James Baldwin insisted that America’s deepest crisis was not political but spiritual. He warned that when a nation refuses to reckon with its history, it turns fear inward and outward—scapegoating the vulnerable rather than confronting its own…
We are praying together as we celebrate women from across many professions and backgrounds during the month of March. This guide to daily prayer is designed to be simple, accessible, and invites all in the Scarritt Bennett community to prayer together as we start this…
If you have ever been to Community Lunch at Scarritt Bennett, chances are you know Rickey Washington – the Mayor of Community Lunch. Rickey wants to know your drink order, answers any dietary questions about lunch you may have, and can keep you up to…
By Rev. Kelli X, Director of Racial Justice Ministries, Scarritt Bennett Center Ida B. Wells, American journalist, educator, civil rights and women’s rights activist, understood something America still struggles to accept: violence does not need chaos to thrive—it only needs lies. In the late 19th century,…
Like most of Nashville, Scarritt Bennett Center lost power during the snow and ice that blanketed our region last weekend left homes and business with out heat, wifi and in some cases water. Although much of the Scarritt campus is back up and running, we…
“Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Galatians 6:9 April 25, 1957, when Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was denied access to speak at Vanderbilt University because of the color of…
If you have friends and family that have stood in line for hours to get a Real ID, we have great news that will make getting your own Real ID much less of a headache and time commitment. Scarritt Bennett Center will be hosting a…
Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand? Exodus 4:2 On Sunday, January 11th, Scarritt Bennett hosted the Women of Faith panel in conjunction with the Interdenominational Minister’s Fellowship (IMF) MLK Day Week activities. The panel discussion was entitled Legacy in…
The 5th Annual Interdenominational Ministers of Faith (IMF) Women of Faith Panel kicked off a week of events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 11th. Scarritt Bennett Center Racial Justice Ministries hosted the discussion, which was a part of MLK Week, produced by IMF. …
Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 Imagine waking…
Dear Friends, As this year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with deep gratitude – a gratitude for the journey we have shared, for the community we continue to nurture, and for you. This year has reminded us that hope is not passive….
As we enter the final week of Advent, the glow of candlelight reminds us that LOVE has come to dwell among us. In a world filled with hurry, anxiety, comparison, grief, and division, love can feel costly but that is what makes it holy. Throughout…