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March 31, 2016 by Jed Dearing
Let’s Grow A Garden!
The Near East House, the newest Praxis intentional community, partnered in the Woodland Park neighborhood with St. Philip’s Columbus, is the proud recipient of a 2016 Young Adult United Thank Offering Grant to start a new community garden. The Woodland Park Community Garden purposes to serve the residents of the neighborhood, both by (1) being […]Archives
March 8, 2016 by Praxis
Reflection on Ferguson
by Katharin Blodgett I grew up in a pretty diverse area in an Indianapolis suburb. But it wasn’t until I was 24 years old that I actually started grasping the truth, history, and scope of everything that had happened and was still happening in 2015. I worked for a summer with a racially diverse staff in […]Archives
February 25, 2016 by Praxis
There has to be a Better Way
by Katie Guy Our team from urban Columbus Ohio arrived in Dilley and made several turns down dusty roads and into the ranch that the CARA staff lives and works out of when they are not working out of the visitation trailer of the Dilley Detention Center. It became clear very quickly that this was […]Archives
January 21, 2016 by Praxis
“What we are sculpting is ourselves” – Duane McDiarmid on Art & Action
Start with two images, both from the Vietnam War, both famous. One is an Eddie Adams photo of a South Vietnamese police chief shooting a man in the head. The other is Malcolm Browne’s photo of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire to protest the war. For Ohio University art professor Duane McDiarmid, these […]Archives
August 25, 2014 by Karl Stevens
How Can Our Faith Communities Support Prophetic Voices?
We stood in the Columbus Museum of Art, all of us a little damp from the downpour outside, and listed to Melissa Wolfe, Curator of American Art. We had come to the museum to view the Modern Dialect exhibit, which features paintings from the 1920s through the 1940s, paintings that offer a stirring critique of […]Archives
January 24, 2014 by Praxis
Episode #45: Can Charity Be Toxic?
This week Karl, Jared, and Laurie continue their discussion about charity and justice, paying special attention to Rabbi Jonathan Spira-Savett’s article “7 Hebrew Words and Phrases Every Activist Should Know.” You can listen to the podcast here or by subscribing through the iTunes store.Archives
November 5, 2013 by Praxis
Clint Smith – “Place Matters”
We heard about this video at the Exodus retreat this weekend. A spoken word piece by a teacher whose school is in a food desert.Archives
October 29, 2013 by Praxis
November Events, sponsored by the Miami Episcopal Student Ministry
MESM is taking up the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation The objective of this International Year is to raise awareness, both on the potential for increased cooperation, and on the challenges facing water management in light of the increase in demand for water access, allocation and services. The Year will highlight the history […]Archives
October 23, 2013 by Praxis