Daniel Pryfogle
@daniel_pryfogle
Monk and marketer. Tweets in between. Cofounder @_Sympara_. CMO @cx_effect. Founder @signalhillspot, @SrCorrespondent. @Co_Generate Innovation Fellow.
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All growth requires the practice of established disciplines (e.g., exercise and contemplation) and the reversal of conventional wisdom (e.g., there must be winners and losers; people must be prodded by leaders to get anything done). This is a paradox. 1/4
These Masters mile times could be read as age-defying achievements. Or they are the gifts of age: self-awareness, discipline, fortitude, resilience, and the energy of history applied in the moment. usatf.org/news/2023/2023…
“Three reformers, all women, were messing with the gravity of things.” @arax_mark reports on a new movement fighting the powers that be in the San Joaquin Valley. nytimes.com/2023/06/01/mag…
“God didn’t give you the ability to throw a baseball like he did to me, and he gave you a gift that I can’t do nothing with!” — The Rev. William H. Greason; story by @LouieLazar nytimes.com/2023/06/04/spo…
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A Negro Leagues Star Is Still Sharing His Story (Published 2023)
A pastor for more than 50 years, William Greason, 98, occasionally tells tales of a lifetime ago, when he mentored Willie Mays and played in the last Negro World Series.
“It will add a very positive story in a very negative time about how Americans can work together, even if they come from very different backgrounds.” — Dorothy Canter, Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historic Park Campaign @YonatShimron religionnews.com/2022/12/08/a-p…
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Park is planned for Jewish philanthropist who built over 5,000 schools for Black kids
(RNS) — Julius Rosenwald partnered with Black educator and civic leader Booker T. Washington to fund the construction of more than 5,000 rural schools for Black children. Now the National Park...
For the last-minute #lectionary preacher: “Restore us” is the people’s plea (Ps 80). “God with us” is the reply — not a panacea but a presence, not a solution but a story, an abiding story. “And they shall name him Immanuel” (Mt 1:23).
Eloise Sheats looks at an empty wing of Macedonia United Methodist Church in Cary, NC — and she sees the possibility of social impact. Her congregation will clarify the vision through the Church & Community Placemaking Lab, sponsored by @OrmondCenter in partnership with Sympara.
For the last-minute #lectionary preacher: These are healthy directions. Work for the well-being of the place where you live (Jer 29:7). Make joyful noise, especially when it makes no sense given your circumstances (Ps 66:1). Trust your longing. Rise and go your way (Luke 17:19).
For the last-minute #lectionary preacher: The religious leader is right that six days are for work (Lk 13:14) — the world needs work (Is 58:12) — but wrong about ceasing on the Sabbath, for this day is made holy as the self finds work’s end and beginning in serving others.
“(E)very step along the way something profoundly real was happening. It was very concrete, very human, very much of this world, but I kept sensing too that somewhere in the thick of it the kingdom itself was glimmering through.” — Frederick Buechner christiancentury.org/article/reflec…
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Frederick Buechner’s many benedictions
Buechner never stopped searching his own life for clues to the presence of...
“In the Statue [of Liberty] we see a country struggling to admit to itself that it has fallen short of its ideals.” — Col. Yevgeny Vindman nytimes.com/2022/07/04/opi…
For the last-minute preacher: Today’s #lectionary texts illustrate the existential dilemma: the burden of choice, even amid miracle. No belief, moral principle, or political position frees one from choosing.
Could an outpost of a just, equitable and sustainable economy be created on religious property in a gentrifying #Charlotte neighborhood? All things are possible in Optimist Park. Join me for conversations in the neighborhood May 19 and 20.
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