The Desert Foundation
We are a small informal Circle of Friends, exploring the wisdom of the desert and the inner desert of loss, grief, and injustice, offering stories of hope in a welcoming Tent of Meeting. You do not have to experience the geographical desert. Whether you live in the Sahara or San Francisco, the Mohave or Madagascar, the Sonoran or Saigon, the desert calls you to the intimate depths of your own heart and opens you to the hearts of the whole human family, the Beloved Community.
“The spiritual life requires us to do more than read a good book or go on a restful retreat… [It is] first and foremost about commitment to a way of thinking and behaving that honors principles of inter-being and interconnectedness.”
bell hooks, All about Love: New Visions
Who We Are
Reflections
Open Hearts, High Hopes
In our ninth Fire and Light podcast, we share our vibrant experience of the Ninth Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, which focused on freedom and the rights of women, indigenous peoples, and the earth itself. Tessa Bielecki's articulate introduction to our conversation will make...
Iceberg Tips and Stones of Hope
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. —Martin Luther King, Jr.The people I encountered at Chicago’s Parliament of the World’s Religions, speakers and attendees, were tips of icebergs. Returning home and learning more about them and their affiliations, I am amazed at the quiet...
Before, After, and the Atomic Bomb
In our eighth podcast, "Before, After, and the Atomic Bomb," Tessa and Dave remember the “before” and “after” of their lives in Sedona, Arizona and relate this to “before” and “after” the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. They respond to “Oppenheimer,” the latest film by Christopher...
What We Do
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