Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Sandy Rogers.

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Sunday Morning Worship

Hope | 5.26.2024

The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die! - Hafiz

Crisis, war, injustice, and violence have a certain logic—and social change processes working to address these challenges carry a similar, reactionary logic. How can love help us to step out of the perceived reality of “what is possible” in building peace during conflict? Turning points in conflicts and crises are often mysterious, require acts of enormous creativity, and a willingness to risk. Social change is an artistic act, mobilizing love and prophetic imagination–and it requires us to step into the mystery of the unknown that lies beyond the far too familiar landscape of violence.

In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”

Events in the serves

Monday, April 29 | Deepa Patel
Weds, May 29 | Aljosie Aldrich Harding
Tues, June 25 | Kalyanee Mam

Aljosie Aldrich Harding
Reared in segregated North Carolina, Aljosie began learning, teaching, and building social justice skills along with organizing in the 1960s as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lome, Togo, West Africa. She has been a servant-leader at the Institute of the Black World (Atlanta), a think tank and advocacy organization, and the Learning House (Atlanta) an independent Afrocentric freedom school. She has worked in community organizing in several southern and northern cities and in empowerment building with women’s circles, organizations, and colleges. With her co-worker, partner, and late husband, Vincent Harding, she built intergenerational relationships with social justice and peace organizations across the United States and abroad. Her organizational links have included the Bruderhof, Soka Gakkai International, Young Adult Quakers, the Dorothy Cotton Institute, the Walter Rodney Symposium and Foundation, Tewa Women United, Kid Cultivators, and the Yale-National University of Singapore. As a spiritual guide (director) she shares healing justice practices in all her organizational work.

Serena Bian
Serena is pursuing a life that remains attentive to the tenderness of a snail’s soft body and reverent to the miracle of its spiraled shell. Working with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Serena serves as a Special Advisor and brings a spiritual and systemic understanding to the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation. As a chaplain-in-training, Serena is pursuing questions of how we chaplain the end of extractive systems that isolate communities from themselves and one another. She is involved with multi-generational, multi-spiritual communities like the Nuns and Nones, devoted to courage, peacebuilding, and love. She participates on the Board of Commonweal and CoGenerate.

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New School Conversations

2024:05.29 - Aljosie Aldrich Harding - What Does Love Have To Do With It?

Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Rev. LeDayne Polaski

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Sunday Morning Worship 2024

Grounded Gratitude | 6.2.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Chris White

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Daddy Don't Walk So Fast | 6.16.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Chelsy Mitchell. 

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Accomplishment and Success | 6.23.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Missy Solomon.
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Disappointment and Failure | 6.30.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with Associate Pastor of Family Life and Missions, Dan McClintock 

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Grief: the Anguish Experienced After Significant Loss | 7.07.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Rebecca Terry. 

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Park Road Baptist Sunday Morning Worship 2024

Joy | 7.14.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with Pastor Amy Jacks Dean. 

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Journey | 7.21.2024

PRAYER OF HARMONY
Jayaji

Dear Beloved Divine,
Of the earth and of the astral
Of the forests and of the seas
Of the sierras and of the desert plains.

To the eternity which has no centre,
To the one which is everyone,
Everywhere and everything.
,
Please lead me from the illusion and into reality
From confusion into clarity
From darkness into light
And from the vice of death
To the realisation of eternal life.

Please elevate my thoughts to the heights of love and illuminate in me the radiation and vibration of Truth, Trust, Presence and Great Awareness that I may engrave in my heart the divine qualities of humility, tranquillity, calmness, compassion and forgiveness.

Let my heart see the world as my home and yet let it still seek to see the spirit that underlines it. 
Let my soul see that hidden in the darkness is a great light and behind every mask of fear is the holy face of love.

Please help me to see the unity in me and in all beings that I can bless and be blessed by the spirit of harmony.

Así

Opening - Prayer of Harmony

Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Daniel Miles.

Park Road Baptist is located Charlotte, NC. For my information, please visit our website at ParkRoadBaptist.org

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Worry | 7.28.2024

The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die! - Hafiz

Crisis, war, injustice, and violence have a certain logic—and social change processes working to address these challenges carry a similar, reactionary logic. How can love help us to step out of the perceived reality of “what is possible” in building peace during conflict? Turning points in conflicts and crises are often mysterious, require acts of enormous creativity, and a willingness to risk. Social change is an artistic act, mobilizing love and prophetic imagination–and it requires us to step into the mystery of the unknown that lies beyond the far too familiar landscape of violence.

Kalyanee Mam: In the last conversation in the series, meet Kalyanee Mam, a filmmaker who was born in Cambodia, escaped the Khmer Rouge, and has spent most of her life trying to understand the root cause of war, destruction, and displacement and how we can return home again. Her debut documentary feature, A River Changes Course, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

View Kalyanee’s film “Lost World” (an excerpt is featured in this podcast) at: https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/lost-world/

Kalyanee Mam
Born in Battambang, Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge regime, which claimed the lives of over 2 million people, Kalyanee and her family were displaced from both their land and their home. Kalyanee has spent most of her life trying to understand the root cause of war, destruction, and displacement and how we can return home again. After returning to Cambodia and spending years living with families in the forests, on the Tonle Sap, and in the countryside, she understands how intimately connected their way of life is to the land, forests, and water and the neak ta or land and water spirits that protect them. Her debut documentary feature, A River Changes Course, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Her other works include the documentary shorts Lost World, Fight for Areng Valley, Between Earth & Sky, and Cries of Our Ancestors. She has also worked as a cinematographer and associate producer on the 2011 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job. She is currently working on a new feature documentary, The Fire and the Bird’s Nest.

Serena Bian
Serena is pursuing a life that remains attentive to the tenderness of a snail’s soft body and reverent to the miracle of its spiraled shell. Working with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Serena serves as a Special Advisor and brings a spiritual and systemic understanding to the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation. As a chaplain-in-training, Serena is pursuing questions of how we chaplain the end of extractive systems that isolate communities from themselves and one another. She is involved with multi-generational, multi-spiritual communities like the Nuns and Nones, devoted to courage, peacebuilding, and love. She participates on the Board of Commonweal and CoGenerate.

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2024:06.25 - Kalyanee Mam - What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding

In the premier episode of Interfaith Interludes, host/producer Colin Kramer interviews Will Keenan about his multifaceted career; including his work with Lloyd Kaufman as well as the unique story behind his founding of Saint Babs (a church celebrating all religions, arts, and recovery).

Episode One

Interfaith Interludes: E1 (Saint Babs with Will Keenan)

Sunday Morning Worship with co-pastors Russ and Amy Jacks Dean. 

Park Road Baptist is located Charlotte, NC. For my information, please visit our website at ParkRoadBaptist.org

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Contemplation | 8.11.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with guest preacher Sandy Rodgers

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Peace | 8.18.2024

Setting Off a Chain Reaction with Stick-to-itiveness | 8.25.2024

Moving In the Direction | 9.1.2024

Sunday Morning Worship with co-pastor Amy Jacks Dean. 

Park Road Baptist is located Charlotte, NC. For my information, please visit our website at ParkRoadBaptist.org

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Faith Works | 9.8.2024

"The Church Left and Right, Christian people, Republican and Democrat and Libertarian and Independent have to say to any leaders who spread such dangerous, demonizing rhetoric, “This is not acceptable. We will not stand for this.”  Such intentional slander is dangerous, and it must stop. The integrity of the Christian Church is at stake and the moral character of the nation. The tongue is afire, and forest is ablaze with the curse of words that has been unleashed on the nation from the halls of power to keyboards in homes and offices across the country." – Russ Dean

Sunday Morning Worship with co-pastors Russ and Amy Jacks Dean. 

Park Road Baptist is located Charlotte, NC. For my information, please visit our website at ParkRoadBaptist.org

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The Curse of Words | 9.15.2024

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The New School presents conversations, book signings, art, and lectures with thought and action leaders of our time. We are a learning community of 4,000 people in the Bay Area and around the world dedicated to learning what matters. 

TNS focuses on the emergent, seeking out the thought and action leaders who are bringing discussion, beauty, and change to the world. We present events and podcast them in many areas: arts and sciences, health and the environment, and inner life. We follow streams of inquiry, including our End-of-Life Conversations, and series on Resilience, Archetypal Psychology, and Healing Circles.

Enjoy a humorous and intense examination of some of today's most intriguing and underreported issues through the lens of mystical intersectionality. Featuring a rotation of insightful and inspiring guests that include award-winning actors, authors, faith experts, esoteric researchers, tour guides, filmmakers, banking/lending experts, housing activists, magicians, and members of the United States Armed Forces. Something for everyone!

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