Widening the Leadership Table
Over the last year, the CLF Board, Nominating Committee, and Lead Ministry Team have been examining how to best serve and be accountable to our membership, nearly 50% of whom are currently incarcerated. Read more →
For Your Reflection
In this section, we offer questions for reflection based on ideas explored in this issue. You may wish to explore it individually or as part of a group discussion.
Quest July/August 2021
July/August 2021
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
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Quest July/August 2021
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou Read more »
Love the Limits
Creativity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Neither is freedom—at least absolute freedom. Read more »
Updates from UUA General Assembly 2021
We were honored to send over 20 CLF member delegates and 16 religious professional delegates to Virtual General Assembly 2021. Now that it’s over, we want to let you know some of what happened. Read more »
Creativity in Cakes
I have been locked up for four years now and I have seen all things created in the penitentiary. Read more »
Reshaping the Soul
To create or to reshape. My understanding is that these are two different things. Read more »
Art as Creative Practice
For many years, you all have sent us your incredible works of visual art along with your poems and essays. Read more »
If You Want to View Paradise (Don’t Ask Me For A Picture)
Yeah, I know you want something a little more up-beat… Read more »
Flowers
Just like a flower, we bloom into ourselves, Taking our precious time as we open up to the world… Read more »
Reshaping the Soul
To create or to reshape. My understanding is that these are two different things. Read more →
Art as Creative Practice
For many years, you all have sent us your incredible works of visual art along with your poems and essays. Read more →
If You Want to View Paradise (Don’t Ask Me For A Picture)
Yeah, I know you want something a little more up-beat Read more →
Flowers
Just like a flower, we bloom into ourselves,
Taking our precious time as we open up to the world. Read more →
Loss as a Gateway to Compassion
This might sound strange, but I have felt the most present, the most interconnected mentally, spiritually, and physically when I have experienced loss. Read more →
Quest June 2021
June 2021
When we heal our own trauma, individually and collectively, we don’t just heal our bodies. By refusing to pass on the trauma we inherited, we help heal the world. –Resmaa Menakem
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The Slowest Part of Ourselves
The body is the slowest part of ourselves. Our thoughts, emotions, spirits — these can move at lightning speed, switching from one state to another in an instant. Read more »
Loss as a Gateway to Compassion
This might sound strange, but I have felt the most present, the most interconnected mentally, spiritually, and physically when I have experienced loss. Read more »
On Grief and Embodiment
Thank you to Rachel for your above piece, “Loss as a Gateway to Compassion” — this reflection is prompted by and written in response to your words. Read more »
Updates from the CLF’s 2021 Annual Meeting
The CLF held its Annual Congregational Meeting on Sunday June 6, 2021. Read more »
A Farewell Note from Rev. Jennifer
This is my last column for CLF in my capacity as Learning Fellow for the Worthy Now Prison Ministry. Read more »
Quest June 2021
When we heal our own trauma, individually and collectively, we don’t just heal our bodies. By refusing to pass on the trauma we inherited, we help heal the world. –Resmaa Menakem Read more »
Quest May 2021
May 2021
There is no freedom with out justice. No divine peace without holy struggle. —CLF Lead Ministry Team
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Quest May 2021
There is no freedom with out justice. No divine peace without holy struggle. —CLF Lead Ministry Team Read more »
The System is Working as Designed
We come to you once again following the state-sanctioned murder of yet another Black man, Daunte Wright. Read more »
Accountability Culture
In response to my November article about why we use the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” Clifford, a CLF member incarcerated in Illinois, asked me to look into the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt, who wrote extensively about power and accountability from her vantage point as a survivor of the Holocaust in Germany. Read more »
Introducing CLF’s new Prison Ministry Manager
Hi, I’m Cir L’Bert, Jr., the new Prison Ministry Manager for The Church of The Larger Fellowship. Read more »
My Graveyard of Honor
AFGHANISTAN — I can never go back, but it doesn’t let me leave. It latches on to you like an addiction, mentally and physically, and tears you apart like a ravenous dog. Read more »
Remembering our Beloved
In the March 2021 issue of Quest, Rev. Jennifer shared a prompt to send us remembrances of incarcerated loved ones whose deaths may have not been marked by the outside. Here are some of the names and reflections we received. Read more »
