{"id":528,"date":"2016-03-22T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-tufts-chaplaincy.pantheonsite.io\/humanist\/?p=528"},"modified":"2016-03-25T22:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:44:25","slug":"small-group-reflection-ani-difranco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.tufts.edu\/humanist\/news\/2016\/03\/22\/small-group-reflection-ani-difranco\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Group Reflection: Ani DiFranco"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Tufts Humanist Chaplaincy, we hope\u00a0to foster a comfortable environment for people to engage in honest discussions around the challenges in their lives, and to explore how people outside traditional religion approach questions that many faith traditions engage regularly. Our day to day lives, on campus and off, can be challenging just as they are exciting, but we don’t always have a structured hour in the week to sit down and reflect on the way we’ve grown, and the lessons we can learn from the experiences of others.<\/p>\n

At small group reflections, the Humanist in Residence facilitates an open, respectful, and confidential conversation around a chosen\u00a0theme that concerns and informs many of our choices and experiences in our life journey. The conversation is rooted in a text (or other piece of culture) written from a Humanist perspective that engages the theme, and from there will be open to the perspectives and experiences of everyone present in the group. Those present are encouraged to bring pieces of culture that inspire their own values on the theme, including and especially those from other faith traditions.<\/p>\n

The upcoming\u00a0small group reflection will be led\u00a0through a set of lyrics from songwriter Ani DiFranco.\u00a0It will be on\u00a0Monday<\/strong>, March\u00a028th<\/strong>, at 9pm in the Interfaith Center<\/strong>\u00a0downstairs meeting room. Small group reflections are open to all members of the Tufts community, irrespective of anyone’s belief background. Light refreshments will be served!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\"\"Ani DiFranco is a hugely prolific American musician and songwriter. Performing in circles of folk rock and alt rock, she has devoted herself and her record label Righteous Babe Records to civil rights causes around feminism and gay visibility. She was criticized in 2014 for scheduling a retreat on a historic slave plantation, and subsequently cancelled the retreat, though it took her months to formally articulate an apology and reflect on the event. At the same time, much of her music has come to reflect a strongly progressive political stance and attempted to articulate the experiences of those suffering under an oppressive America.<\/p>\n

\u00a0DiFranco openly identifies as an atheist. She recognizes a role that religion and spiritual language plays in the lives of many people (especially activists), but she finds her own fulfillment and community through her activist commitments and political devotion.<\/p>\n

This Monday, we’ll listen to the\u00a0title track from DiFranco’s album\u00a0Up Up Up Up Up Up<\/em>\u00a0and read the lyrics, particularly this selection:<\/p>\n

she crawls out on a limb<\/em>
and begins to build her home<\/em>
amd it’s enough just to look around<\/em>
to know she’s not alone<\/em><\/p>\n

up up up up up up points <\/em>
the spire of the steeple<\/em>
but god’s work isn’t done by god<\/em>
it’s done by people<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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