While concepts of God are quite dominant in Western culture, people from Eastern cultures struggle to comprehend this notion of an all-powerful super being. Revered Seminary professor, Zen Priest and UU minister James Ford reflects on the birth of God in Western culture. Click here to view the service.
Description When and how have you experienced being fully at home in your body? What experiences or ideas have caused you to leave your body, or to see is as something other than you? How might we come home to our bodies, and why might we want to? Click here to watch the service.
Many of us are relying on our daily patterns and routines to give us steadiness and comfort in these times. Some of us struggle with a lack of routine, some of us with a lack of needed change and growth. At times we are pushed to our limits of longing for both connection and freedom. … Continue reading The Peace of Pattern
All our lives, we wait for a greater love to come – our destiny, our joy, our heart’s desire. What will it take to make manifest these deep yearnings?
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Please join us for a contemplative, Earth-centered, Celtic-inspired ritual to mark the turning of the year as the darkness gives way to the growing light. We will meet via Zoom.
This participatory ritual will include calling in the Directions, chanting & singing, meditation, candle-lighting, and deep connection with this seasonal turning of the year.
Unlike our in-person ritual, this one is not particularly kid-friendly. Plan to have with you a candle and matches as well as a noisemaker (rattle, shaker, bell) for the Light Returning section. Because of intermittent connectivity with Zoom, participants will remain muted until invited at certain times in the ritual to unmute. Chants and songs will be participatory and lyrics will be posted in the Chat.
For questions and to get the Zoom link, please contact Katy Taylor at katy@katytaylor.com, 360-379-6802.
We often celebrate winter solstice for the returning of the light – but the darkness offers its own profound gifts. light. As Martin Luther King once said, “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
In his book Ecstasy: Understanding the Psychology of Joy, Jungian analyst Robert Johnson writes that ecstasy “was once considered a favor of the gods,” a “transformative fire” that could obliterate barriers and provide a greater understanding of the universe. This Sunday, as we light the Candle of Joy, we leap feet first into ecstatic explorations in the name of a living joy, right here, right now!
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The sermon on this Sunday when we light a candle to Hope will explore the questions, “What is hope and in what is it rooted?” Click here to view the service. Click here to read the reading and sermon.
Earlier this month, as the President-elect concluded his victory speech, he told a lovely story that whenever he left his grandparents’ home after a visit, his grandfather would say “Joey, keep the faith.” And then his grandmother would counter, “No, Joey, spread the faith.”
This Sunday, as we light the candle of Faith, we ask “How shall we spread this light?”
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While we might usually think of families as composed of individual persons, institutions–including fellowships–are sometimes understood to be families or part of a family. Which family dynamics are healthy? Which are harmful? Who is our kin?
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