Breath is the foundation for which the Lord God gives life.
Sickness has plagued us from the beginning of time. It’s the reason why healing is such a key component of our sacred text.
Through God's Grace and Mercy
Whether we help in a food pantry, open our doors to a person looking for shelter, or give a dollar to a person in need, we reflect on Luke 10 as a call for spiritual renewal.
Let's Light Some Candles Today
There is an old saying that it is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Let’s light some candles today.
Hope is the Anchor for Our Souls
“This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.” Romans 6:19a New Living Translation (NLT).
Reflection & Prayer of Joy
This Advent season Sisters and Brothers let us remember that anticipatory Joy. Let us remember that there is a Joy so powerful that it can make us fall to our knees.
Breathing is Life, Freedom, Love and Truth
Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
Inhale and Exhale.
We must breathe to keep our hearts beating and blood flowing. But, so many of life’s challenges threaten to or actually do suffocate us.
We Must Breathe and Support the Breath of Others
Community Renewal Society is essential to the eradication of systemic racism in the United States because we must breathe.
We Must Come Together
Just as God gave us the breath of life, we must express our gratitude by giving to the work that minister to the needs of others.
Holy Spirit, Breathe on Us
We are those whom God breathed on; who breathe because of God; and whose breath is continually being choked off. We are those who are suffocated by marginalization, degradation, dehumanized and demoralized due to the color of our skin.
A Post Election Devotion
It is said that peace is not the absence of conflict or strife, but the ability to cultivate calm in the midst of chaos. As a leader in the American civil rights movement, Thurman surely felt the chaos of his time, as we so acutely feel ours now.
We Must Breathe
We Must Breathe affirms the sanctity of life. There is no place for poverty and racism in our society. Together, with a collective breath, we can transform society toward greater justice, greater good, and greater love. Together, as a Beloved Community, we must breathe.
Tubman's Life Continues to Serve as an Inspiration
Freedom fighter, Union spy, Underground Railroad Conductor and Social Justice Organizer, Harriet Tubman is commanding our attention even 100 years after her death.
The Power of the Prophet Never Dies
After the end of a difficult legislative session in Springfield, CRS Executive Director, Rev. Curtiss Paul DeYoung, shared the following encouragement with CRS leaders at the summer Leadership Council on June 21, 2014.