07 Jul, 2021
How do we typically define “truth”? As fact, right? The problem is that the “truth” changes depending on a person’s point of view. A crime can have multiple witnesses, all of whom saw their own “true” version of the crime. Religions often claim...
29 Jun, 2021
How good, how lovely it is to eat and drink and find satisfaction in everything we do under the sun during the few days of life God gives us - to embrace everything that comes to us! Regardless of how much wealth or possessions God gives us, we...
14 Jun, 2021
Love your neighbor as yourself . We tend to forget that last part, don't we? So much of religion is focused away from ourselves – serve others, forgive others, be compassionate to others. So, this second most important commandment (next to...
07 Jun, 2021
Becoming… it is what we are all doing. From the moment we’re born until the moment we die (and perhaps even after that) we’re becoming . Our lives are being shaped and molded by our experiences, our thoughts, by other people, and by the things...
31 May, 2021
Why do we even want to talk about becoming broken open? Because we all experience brokenness in life. That’s simply life. No one wants it. No one asks for it. But it happens. As Elizabeth Lesser says, during challenging times some people can’t...
24 May, 2021
It’s Pentecost – traditionally held fifty days after Easter. It is truly a celebration of the movement of the Spirit, also known as Shekinah, Hokmah, Wisdom, Ruah, Sophia, the feminine essence of the Divine. At the very beginning of the Old...
17 May, 2021
Wayne Dyer begins his book, Your Sacred Self, with this quote: “All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I am finally somebody…. But it isn’t me.” It seems like there is much truth to this! We spend the first part of our lives trying to be what...
10 May, 2021
In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, a jar with 13 codices of Gnostic texts was found preserved in a cave. Those writings, after decades of being kept private and shuffled around the globe, eventually reconstructed our entire understanding of the...
03 May, 2021
We’ve been talking about Beloved Community for the last two weeks. We’ve talked about how we don’t have to think the same, or be the same, but instead how we’re called to be like-hearted in Beloved Community. We’re called to be compassionate,...
19 Apr, 2021
The story of Peter healing the lame man is fascinating, but unreachable, as a literal story. None of us have ever seen this happen, none of us could presume to go out and heal someone who couldn’t walk. So, how does this have meaning for us...