{"id":22384,"date":"2001-10-29T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2001-10-29T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22384"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:36:40","slug":"folk-singer-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2001\/10\/29\/folk-singer-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk singer and storyteller to discuss spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bennett E. Tousley, a folk singer and story teller from Woburn, Mass., will give a lecture titled <em>You Can&#8217;t Kill the Spirit: A Journey Through Suffering<\/em>, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in Skelton Lounge of Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. Part of the series &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02,&#8221; sponsored by the chaplain&#8217;s office, the talk is open to the public free of charge. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can we face the suffering we all inevitably experience as a resource for spiritual growth?&#8221; Tousley asks. &#8220;How might our own personal suffering be used as a resource for political and social change?&#8221; Tousley will explore these and other questions as he tells and sings the story of his own journey of suffering, from his experience in a home torn apart by religious division, through his work in a locked ward of a state psychiatric hospital and an urban shelter for the homeless, to his own recovery from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Tousley has traveled widely as a folk singer and storyteller throughout the United States, England and Ireland. He has recorded five albums of original music, including his recent CD, <em>Open the Gates<\/em>. Assessing his standing as a folk artist, The Boston Globe wrote, &#8220;Tousley&#8217;s ability to begin his political writing deep within his own experience represents the genre at its best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next in the Spiritual Journeys series are John McClendon III and John McClendon II, who will discuss <em>African American Mysticism: A Father and Son&#8217;s Spiritual Journey with Contemporary Mystic Howard Thurman<\/em> at 4:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 21, in Skelton Lounge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bennett E. Tousley, a folk singer and story teller from Woburn, Mass., will give a lecture titled &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Kill the Spirit: A Journey Through Suffering&#8221;, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in Skelton Lounge of Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. Part of the series &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02,&#8221; sponsored by the chaplain&#8217;s office, the talk is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39,11009],"tags":[6111,11648,8087],"class_list":["post-22384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-the-college","tag-multifaith-chaplaincy","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-spiritual-journeys-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92743,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384\/revisions\/92743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}