When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
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I Once Believed: Re-Framing a Traditional Christian Past Part 4Από τον SSUC - Spiritual Seekers United in Community
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Even though the Christian church turned a common cultural practice of ritual washing into an exercise in “sin management”, there are still remnants of something else, something simpler. There is still a hint of the first century teacher and his followers who had something completely different to say about this experience. This is from the community…
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I Once Believed: Re-Framing a Traditional Christian Past Part 2Many of us who, either long ago or more recently, have found our way to SSUC have come from very different spiritual experiences. Some have come from other traditions entirely, some from a more evangelical upbringing, many from what you might call a liberal Untied Church tradition or si…
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I Once Believed: Re-Framing a Traditional Christian Past Part 1Beliefs and understandings are always evolving in a healthy spirituality. We all change and grow, finding that things we once believed have needed to be put aside, rejected, or allowed to evolve into something new. There is no one right place to be on that journey: from those beginning …
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Part Three: The Grief of Change"Some things cannot be fixed, they can only be carried."Από τον SSUC - Spiritual Seekers United in Community
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The Paradox of ChangeMere change is not growth.Growth is the synthesis of change and continuityand where there is no continuity there is no growth.- C.S. LewisThis audio taken from a live gathering. Join us every week at ssucemonton.com/live at 10 AM (MT) for our weekly spiritual reflection.Follow us at facebook.com/ssucedmontoninstagram.com/ssuc_y…
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