The following are Kirkridge-community-member Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s words at a press conference on Tuesday, August 26, 2025. I confess that for a press conference I find myself at a loss for words. So let me begin by reading something of a journal entry from the beginning of this fast… “my friend Hassan, 84, remembers in his […]
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by Bill Wylie-Kellermann When I was a student at Union Seminary in New York, Abraham Heschel taught at Jewish Theological Seminary across the street. Though he died within my first year, the author of The Prophets, was notorious, it was said, for being the professor who actually believed in God. Something related might be said
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Every week of the year, we provide hospitality to individuals and communities seeking to discover their own light and offer that light in return to the world. This year alone, we have welcomed retired veterans finding new words for their stories, young adults living with disabilities crafting beautiful pieces of art in our glass studio,
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By Sally Z. Hare, Board Chair Emerita I’ve never agreed with the so-called experts who tell us that the bedroom is only for sleeping. They even go so far as to admonish that, if we use the bedroom for other things, we’ll have difficulty sleeping. Some sleep experts insist that the key to maximizing the
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You are invited to a special virtual Celebration — a gathering of all who have come to Kirkridge! At Kirkridge, our hearts are full. People have come from far and wide over the past months for new and spirit-filled on-line programming. We would love for you to meet one another and celebrate our wide, expansive
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On Sunday, November 1st, Kirkridge held its first virtual Fall Festival & Fundraiser with over 100 participants and countless moments of joy, hope, and togetherness. We hope to continue this community commitment to generosity to ourselves and each other throughout 2020. To view the fall festival and fundraiser, please click here. To support Kirkridge’s legacy,
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Recently it dawned on me that I was in seminary before President Gerald Ford in 1976 called upon the nation to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” As a white person I am keenly aware that American History is taught through
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June 30th marks the end of our fiscal year. We’ve had a year that stretched us, challenged us, and grew us in to who we are. We offer our 2020 annual report, to our community, as a view of the work we have accomplished through the past year at Kirkridge. You will find within its
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Today, in a spirit of humility, we at Kirkridge mark Juneteenth, a national holiday celebrating the end of an institution that should never have existed and that ended, for far too many, long after the Emancipation Proclamation. There are those who say it never ended. We have far to go until we see racial justice in
By Nichola Torbett “Why didn’t I do something sooner?” That was the question I kept asking myself when the racial healing retreat here at Kirkridge ruptured last week. It was almost but not quite the right question. The rupture, as it turned out, was the precursor to real intimacy and a way forward that is
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