Videos
Relevant stories and testimony from people who share philosophy and values with us.
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Charter for Compassion
Love and compassion remain the motivation in serving one's neighbor. These driving forces raise the question, "Who is my neighbor?" and help us answer, "Everyone, even my enemy."
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Henri Nouwen – Disciples of the Beloved
Henri Nouwen presents community as outreach into "fellowship of the weak." Those we minister to become our source of blessing, for in them rests the words "My beloved."
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Jean Vanier: What’s Christian about Christian leadership?
Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, an international organization dedicated to the creation of homes, programs, and support networks with people who have intellectual disabilities tells us that at the heart of Christian leadership is forgiveness and love of enemies.
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Walter Brueggemann: Schooled In Denial
Is the church's voice mono-lingual? Are we too quick to deny our pain? Walter Brueggemann talks about the alternative voice of the wounded. Through the wounded we have honest access to our pain.
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The Gospel According to Luke
The people of Nain were preparing themselves for a funeral, their hearts were broken. But no one’s heart was broken more than the mother, the widow, who had lost the only thing that gave her any meaning. She, being already worthless to society, would now be less than an outcast. But Jesus, showing up on the scene, casts a different light. He raises the widow’s son from the dead and everything changes.
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Insight From Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School, on "becoming a friend of time." The language of Stanley Hauerwas is a great representation of Desert Ministries philosophy of ministry.
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Mother Teresa: How to Love God
Mother Teresa, who embodies the true meaning of service, comments on the Mystery of the Mystery of the Nativity and how that encompasses our love of God.
