Content Tagged ‘prayer’
November 5, 2018 | Tags: carrying on, Countering hate, despair, Difficult Times, Elections, hope, prayer, prayer flags, violence, weight of the news
The horrific news of recent weeks feels impossible to bear. Like many others, I have cried, raged, railed, lamented, sought community and sat in desolate silence. This week’s elections may bring what some will call victory, but no matter which winners are declared, we will remain a country dangerously divided. It is important to ask […]
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June 7, 2017 | Tags: anti-racism, Dakota, deconstruction, oppression, prayer, public art, sacred ceremony, scaffold, Walker Sculpture Garden
On June 2, 2017, over 300 people gathered in downtown Minneapolis on the grounds of the Walker Art Museum’s redesigned sculpture garden, not quite finished and not yet opened, to witness the ceremonial deconstruction of an installation titled “Scaffold.” Designed by artist Sam Durant, “Scaffold” was modeled after a gallows used to hang 38 Dakota […]
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