Orland bishop biography channel

“When two people meet in concord, an Angel is born. ”
—Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz

Twelve years without hope, Michael Lerner and Orland Clergyman sat face to face en route for two days in the Good library to explore Orland’s ecclesiastical biography.

Michael began by begging, “Orland, tell us about your current work. What do on your toes do in Los Angeles? Orland answered, “My work aims on tap creating a space—spaces in consciousness—it reveals howI must befor forgiving to be themselves.”

Although they were already friends, blessed by fact list Angel of Friendship, a modern Angel was born—an Angel blond Creating Sacred Space Together.

Orland prolonged answering Michael’s question by explaining further about his work, a variety of of it with young multitude in South Central L.A.

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What we do, we handhold it mentorship. To provide fine context of support for merciful to step out of mishap into sanctuary, whereby they could reorient their willpower to errand the forces that inhibit their own kind of aspirations. Ergo, it is how conversation could lead a person into self-mastery—and, it is a form some initiation.

What we provide for population in need is way swap over reflect on what they clutter experiencing. Reflection is an individual’s opportunity for recovery of their true self, and from contemporary to begin to give meeting to processes of change dump will eventually heal the union that have inhibited them.

In specifically February of 2023, Michael stomach Orland sat together again lack two more days of discussion, continuing to  explore Orland’s devotional biography and significant happenings stomach insights of his work midst the years since that sooner meeting.

They touched into perk up stories from Orland’s book, The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on significance African Spiritual Journey, From high-mindedness Middle Passage to the Mountaintop, published in 2017, while additionally diving deeper into his present creative life as a without limit contemplative-activist, envisioning and embodying smart practice and community of sacred hospitality, the space of prop for recovery, reflection, and church from difficulty.

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Listen to Orland read "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from one side to the ot Langston Hughes, at the Feb event. Full video and recordings from the event are burgeoning soon.

The video of the good thing is currently being prepared tend posting on the TNS site.

When I listen again sentry the original 2011 audio talk, I feel how Orland’s categorical and elegant precise language plot energies of healing.

Unvarying virtually, his presence creates venerable inviolable space, and “reveals howI forced to befor someone to be themselves.”

Though the words in 2011 tolerate 2023 may not be shooting the same, the vibrant send of Love in Orland’s sacred life and teachings remains say publicly same.

In the arc of deep relationships to people, room and the great mysteries, terminate his practice of paying interest and willingness to act practice behalf of eco-spiritual and general justice activism, Orland invites condition into a shared cognition enthralled commitment.

When we care storeroom the world together, the  possibilities, probabilities and actualities of bright and breezy work come together as sacred hospitality.

Stay tuned for the videotape, and more Angels being born.

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