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What I Learned from My Internship

April 21, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

I will always remember what my mother told me before I started applying for my first internship. She said, “Izzy, a good internship provides you with experiences, lessons, and tools you’ll need to get a full-time gig in the future,…

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Rev. Dr. David Lindsey’s Concluding Remarks MLK Program 2021

April 14, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

“As we head on our way, I want to encourage and challenge all of us on this call to take away at least one thing we heard today. It could be a moment that touched your heart; it could be an…

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IFC Statement on the Killings in the Atlanta Metro Area

March 17, 2021 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

  We at the Interfaith Council are devastated about the killing of eight people in the Atlanta metro area on March 16. On behalf of all eleven of our faith traditions, we extend our deepest condolences to the families and…

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My Call to Action

July 13, 2020 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

Most mornings I wake up early with a spring in my step, and head to our local Gurdwara (Sikh Temple) with my son Harvi.  When we arrive we start by washing our hands and taking our places six feet apart…

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I Pray

June 4, 2020 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections, Uncategorized

      As a hospital chaplain I begin every morning in the neonatal ICU.   There are the most precious newborns, many less than 2 pounds born prematurely struggling for life.  Their bodies are breathtakingly small and one tries to…

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Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

May 11, 2020 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

It is an odd season for religious ritual.  We can’t gather in person, we’re having to combine traditional practices with 21st century technology, and we’re scrambling to make meaning from the present moment in the context of our ancient stories.…

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Finding Community Among Strangers

March 31, 2020 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

I have lived most of my life in small town Virginia and have taken public transportation only a handful of times in my life, and almost certainly never alone. After living in DC these past few months, I soon learned…

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Nature as a Window into Interfaith

October 1, 2019 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

I have the great privilege of spending a month every summer on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness area in Northern Minnesota. We have a simple family cabin located on National Forest Service land that is “off-the-grid” with…

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Human Race

August 11, 2019 Ann Delorey Category: Uncategorized

The violence, The hatred There’s no easy way to say this You see me as a stranger You see me as a danger Lock our doors Close our borders Defend a false sense of order Build a wall, bombs, and…

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The Man from Union Station

July 22, 2019 Ann Delorey Category: Reflections

I take the Red Line coming back home and I get off at Union Station. I am just one of the many of thousands who get off at that stop. You always interact, or at least pass by a variety…

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