Category Archives: God in the Media

Word of God proclaimed and found in art, music, internet, print…

What do we do with our anger and rage in lament?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by kathrynrickert

If the emotion in the pit of your stomach after watching another killing of an African American man, a suicide bombing, a car-crash, stabbing, or a sniper killing is anger and rage, then it is anger and rage. Continue reading →

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Advent – a response to terrorism and abuse

Posted on December 13, 2015 by kathrynrickert

something about the pull of violent evil disturbs the balance of our vision so that instead of seeing clearly where the evil is, came from, and is going; our sight is clouded by fear and rage. Instead of keeping open the “lines of sight” between ourselves and the sources and practioners of violent evil, lines of sight that allow for a critical understanding of the sources, courses, directions of and responses to evil, … Continue reading →

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A Reading List

Posted on August 15, 2012 by kathrynrickert

Reading as a way to gain some understanding of Native peoples
Beginning Relations through reading Continue reading →

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The Discovery of Lament & the Doctrine of Discovery

Posted on July 11, 2012 by kathrynrickert

Lament is a small form of death and resurrection. It does more than cleansing. Rather, lament transforms by opening our eyes, ears, hands, hearts and minds to each other, to God and to ourselves. Continue reading →

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Pondering Native Americans and “Thanksgiving”

Posted on November 30, 2010 by kathrynrickert

For righteousness and peace will show their faces
to those who feed the hungry in their need,
and wrongs redress, who build the old waste places,
and in the darkness shine.
Divine, divine, divine it is when all combine! Continue reading →

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C.S. Lewis and UN MDG #2 learning to read

Posted on November 8, 2010 by kathrynrickert

“But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping.” C. S. Lewis Continue reading →

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ENTERING INTO THE DEPTH OF HUMANITY THROUGH FILM…EXPIRATION DATE, THE MOVIE, NOV 12TH, ST MARK’S CATHEDRAL

Posted on November 6, 2010 by kathrynrickert

One way to begin to enter into the depths of humanity…film

Sharing Too Much! Continue reading →

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Daily Writing

Posted on June 16, 2010 by kathrynrickert

The purpose of this post is to encourage other people to write, because writing has a way of opening life to us that may not othewise happen. In it I tell you a bit about how and why I write … Continue reading →

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