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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
1

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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PEN America Festival
May
1
to May 2

PEN America Festival

The World Voices Festival is PEN America’s annual celebration of writers, international literature, and free expression. Taking place from April 29 through May 2, with more than 140 writers from 40 countries, this year’s festival is an insistence on the power of literature and cross-cultural dialogue. This gathering of writers from every part of the globe is a potent reminder—in fact, an antidote in an era of censorship, nativism, and renewed isolationism—that books drive culture and the stories we tell can shape and transform our lives.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
2

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
2

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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Sunday Service
May
3

Sunday Service

Intentional Acts of Kindness

This Sunday, as we continue through Eastertide, we'll gather at table once again to share in the act that keeps us a community: Communion. We'll also welcome a young person into our community through another act of communal promise: Baptism. Micah will facilitate an exploration on why these two acts held our spiritual ancestors together and why they just might hold us together, even as so much continues to threaten to tear us apart. Come dine and dive. The meal and the water are always fine.

Join us in person or online here.

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Excess Anonymous
May
4

Excess Anonymous

Excess Anonymous (EA) is an intimate group dedicated to examining the relationship between our culture of excess and our spiritual lives. We offer a supportive space for deep reflection, self inquiry, and sharing. Join us!

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
May
4

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Bible Study Group
May
5

Bible Study Group

Each Tuesday we identify specific aspects of the Bible that generate individual thought and open respectful discussion. Come join us and add your Thoughts/interpretations to the conversation as we examine Old and New Testament scriptures. We thoughtfully examine the messages to humankind valued centuries ago that continue to offer meaning to us in the 21st century.

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Judson Arts Presents: Keen's Mixtape with Monica Bill Barnes Company
May
6

Judson Arts Presents: Keen's Mixtape with Monica Bill Barnes Company

About the Curator: Mona Mansour grew up in a Southern California suburb, the daughter of a Lebanese immigrant father and American mother from Seattle. She moved to New York in the wake of the Sept.11th attacks, when the Middle Eastern theater community was fired up by an urgent need to change the narrative around Arab-Americans. The questions around her own father, who left Lebanon by choice, took her to his village in Southern Lebanon, and an examination of the “villages'' next to it — the Palestinian camps Mieh-Mieh and Ain El Hilweh. This notion of displacement became central to what would become The Vagrant Trilogy, which made its NYC debut at The Public Theater in 2022, directed by Mark Wing-Davey. In 2019, Mona formed SOCIETY, with whom she has created Beginning Days of True Jubilation (New Ohio Theater), and the upcoming ENTANGLEMENT, co-written with Emily Zemba. Other credits: Unseen (Mosaic and OSF), The Way West at Labyrinth Theater and Steppenwolf. Awards: PEN America, Literature Award/Academy of Arts and Letters; Steinberg, Kesselring, Whiting. Beautiful Little Fool, written with Hannah Corneau and directed by Michael Greif, will receive its premiere in London in January 2026 at Southwark Playhouse. Her plays have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Romanian and Hungarian. TV: New Amsterdam and Ammo (in development) with Littleton Road and Fisher Stevens’ Highly Flammable.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
8

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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Streetworks x Housing Works: Kiki Ball
May
8

Streetworks x Housing Works: Kiki Ball

A Kiki Ball is a vibrant and affirming celebration rooted in ballroom culture—an expressive space where LGBTQ+ community members, primarily Black and Latinx youth, come together to showcase their creativity through fashion, dance (voguing), and performance. These gatherings offer newcomers a chance to practice their craft, build confidence, and be embraced by chosen families known as “houses.”

We’d be honored to have you join us for this meaningful evening. Your presence would mean a lot to the community, and we hope to see you there!

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
9

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
9

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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Excess Anonymous
May
11

Excess Anonymous

Excess Anonymous (EA) is an intimate group dedicated to examining the relationship between our culture of excess and our spiritual lives. We offer a supportive space for deep reflection, self inquiry, and sharing. Join us!

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
May
11

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Bible Study Group
May
12

Bible Study Group

Each Tuesday we identify specific aspects of the Bible that generate individual thought and open respectful discussion. Come join us and add your Thoughts/interpretations to the conversation as we examine Old and New Testament scriptures. We thoughtfully examine the messages to humankind valued centuries ago that continue to offer meaning to us in the 21st century.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
15

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
16

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
16

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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Excess Anonymous
May
18

Excess Anonymous

Excess Anonymous (EA) is an intimate group dedicated to examining the relationship between our culture of excess and our spiritual lives. We offer a supportive space for deep reflection, self inquiry, and sharing. Join us!

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
May
18

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Bible Study Group
May
19

Bible Study Group

Each Tuesday we identify specific aspects of the Bible that generate individual thought and open respectful discussion. Come join us and add your Thoughts/interpretations to the conversation as we examine Old and New Testament scriptures. We thoughtfully examine the messages to humankind valued centuries ago that continue to offer meaning to us in the 21st century.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
22

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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Born Again Queer: Book Launch with William Stell
May
22
to May 23

Born Again Queer: Book Launch with William Stell

Born Again Queer tells the story of how evangelical homophobia got MADE. Believe it or not, homosexuality used to be a peripheral concern for most evangelicals. Over time, for multiple reasons, evangelical leaders turned it into a defining issue for their movement. Join us for the launch of this book by William Stell!

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
23

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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New York Now: Body Sonnet
May
23

New York Now: Body Sonnet

The evening includes newave, a duet by Mio Ishikawa to music by Tushrik Fredericks, danced by Ian Debono and Matthew Spangler. x dance, a solo performed and created by Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, and ParkeHarrison’s say i am you. Originally performed by Post:ballet in 2022, say i am you will be revived with dancers Ny Opong, Colin Frederick, Miriam Gittens, Quaba Ernest, Lieana Sherry and Marcus Sarjeant.

TICKETS $35

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Excess Anonymous
May
25

Excess Anonymous

Excess Anonymous (EA) is an intimate group dedicated to examining the relationship between our culture of excess and our spiritual lives. We offer a supportive space for deep reflection, self inquiry, and sharing. Join us!

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Bible Study Group
May
26

Bible Study Group

Each Tuesday we identify specific aspects of the Bible that generate individual thought and open respectful discussion. Come join us and add your Thoughts/interpretations to the conversation as we examine Old and New Testament scriptures. We thoughtfully examine the messages to humankind valued centuries ago that continue to offer meaning to us in the 21st century.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
29

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
May
30

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
30

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Apr
27

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Excess Anonymous
Apr
27

Excess Anonymous

Excess Anonymous (EA) is an intimate group dedicated to examining the relationship between our culture of excess and our spiritual lives. We offer a supportive space for deep reflection, self inquiry, and sharing. Join us!

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Sunday Service
Apr
26

Sunday Service

Together Through the Valley

Reflecting on Psalm 23, Community Minister Xiao Ma will weave together stories of migration, chaplaincy, and unexpected moments of care. This sermon asks what it really means to “fear no evil,” suggesting that the promise of faith is not the absence of fear, but the presence of companionship. And Alma Reiss-Navarre will add inspiration to the sermon with improvised dance!

Join us in person or online here.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
Apr
25

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
Apr
24

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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Heightened Scrutiny
Apr
23

Heightened Scrutiny

Join us for a first of its kind, hybrid cross-movement event addressing the harm the New York Times has caused to our movements and communities—including to trans folks, Palestinians, Black folks, and working people. Hear from a panel of movement and media leaders about how NYT coverage and op-eds directly inform dangerous legislation domestically and manufacture consent for U.S.-led war and genocide globally. This evening aims to build bridges between our movements and offer an alternative to the corporate and state-powered attempt to silo our communities and struggles.

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Bible Study Group
Apr
21

Bible Study Group

Each Tuesday we identify specific aspects of the Bible that generate individual thought and open respectful discussion. Come join us and add your Thoughts/interpretations to the conversation as we examine Old and New Testament scriptures. We thoughtfully examine the messages to humankind valued centuries ago that continue to offer meaning to us in the 21st century.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Apr
20

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Excess Anonymous
Apr
20

Excess Anonymous

Excess Anonymous (EA) is an intimate group dedicated to examining the relationship between our culture of excess and our spiritual lives. We offer a supportive space for deep reflection, self inquiry, and sharing. Join us!

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Gaia One-Day Choir
Apr
19

Gaia One-Day Choir

Gaia Music Collective's One-Day Choir series is an opportunity to sing in a choir for one day only. A celebration of song and the connective power of singing in harmony. An opportunity to build community, make some new friends, and raise our powerfully diverse voices as one.

TICKETS

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Sunday Service
Apr
19

Sunday Service

Resurrection Detection

w Rev. Micah Bucey

As our journey deeper into the supposedly resurrective season of Eastertide continues, anyone paying attention to our current moment can see that crucifixions continue. What might the stories of Jesus's friends conjuring visions of him in the immediate traumatic wake of his execution have to teach us about not only surviving but thriving? Micah's got lots of questions and they can't even begin to get on the road to any answers without you.

Join us in person or online here.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
Apr
18

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
Apr
18

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
Apr
17

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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Bread & Puppet Presents: End of the World Never Minding Show
Apr
14
to Apr 16

Bread & Puppet Presents: End of the World Never Minding Show

Tuesday, April 14 @ 7pm
Wednesday, April 15 @ 7pm
Thursday, April 16 @ 7pm

Join Bread & Puppet Theater for an urgently-needed new puppet show. We must take our cardboard provocations into the revolting streets of life, with help from our paper-maché divinities, to succeed and succeed.

INFO & TICKETS

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Bible Study Group
Apr
14

Bible Study Group

Each Tuesday we identify specific aspects of the Bible that generate individual thought and open respectful discussion. Come join us and add your Thoughts/interpretations to the conversation as we examine Old and New Testament scriptures. We thoughtfully examine the messages to humankind valued centuries ago that continue to offer meaning to us in the 21st century.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Apr
13

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Excess Anonymous
Apr
13

Excess Anonymous

Excess Anonymous (EA) is an intimate group dedicated to examining the relationship between our culture of excess and our spiritual lives. We offer a supportive space for deep reflection, self inquiry, and sharing. Join us!

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On the Ground & At the Table: Harm Reduction LOVE FEAST EventS
Apr
12

On the Ground & At the Table: Harm Reduction LOVE FEAST EventS

For this month’s FIHR LOVE FEAST at JUDSON we are opening our fellowship meal to a deeply needed and welcomed collaboration – with mutual aid organizers on the ground in Jerusalem and Gaza, alongside local faith leaders and organizers working in collaboration with their efforts, at home and abroad. What can we learn from each other? What can we gain from sitting in communion with others doing faith-led resistance to reduce and combat the harm caused by empire’s carceral, extractive, stigmatizing systems of control and chaos? Our Harm Reduction Ministry Fellows and leadership team will be joined for this special joint meal by speakers, participants and guests from the afternoon’s “On the Ground” event at 2pm , co-hosted by Judson and the American Council on Judaism in partnership with Rabbis for Ceasefire, The Community Church of New York, Middle Church, and the 15th St Quaker Meeting.

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Sunday Service
Apr
12

Sunday Service

Transforming with Thomas

Easter doesn't end with one big day; it's a continuing season. This Sunday, as we journey into Eastertide, Community Minister Rev. Lisa Holton will lead us into the continuing calls of resurrection, which include paying attention to wounds, tending harm, and recommitting to transformative healing, especially as demonstrated in the story of "Doubting" Thomas. Come gather up the brokenness and we'll keep co-creating a horizon far more life-giving than Empire crucifixion.

Join us in person or online here.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
Apr
11

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
Apr
11

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)
Apr
10

The Circle (Online Meditation & Prayer)

Our Online Meditation & Prayer practice is open to anyone who would like to join by computer or phone.

These quiet, contemplative sessions last an hour, beginning with an opening centering prayer, followed by about 10 minutes of silence, a devotional poetry reading, a sharing of prayer requests, another 10 minutes of silence, and a closing centering prayer. Details to log in or call in will remain the same each week.

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Bible Study Group
Apr
7

Bible Study Group

Each Tuesday we identify specific aspects of the Bible that generate individual thought and open respectful discussion. Come join us and add your Thoughts/interpretations to the conversation as we examine Old and New Testament scriptures. We thoughtfully examine the messages to humankind valued centuries ago that continue to offer meaning to us in the 21st century.

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