This sermon, a follow-up on Dr. Bower’s sermon from May 22, 2016 titled “Midwifing Change,” explores how the “heroic” approach to social activism is at odds with progressive values. How can we step out of that mindset and “walk our talk” in a way that reflects what we really stand for? About Dr. Jody Bower: … Continue reading Midwifing Change, Part Two
Our Easter Sunday service begins with a “Flower Communion” ceremony (please bring a flower to the service to share). Rev. Bode reflects on the words of e. e. cummings’ poem, “i thank You, God for most this amazing,” which our choir also sings. Click here to listen to the introduction and sermon.
This service, held in the middle of the day in our sanctuary, adapts and universalizes the Good Friday tradition. In a culture that forever wants to be up, this service provides the rare opportunity to drop down. Both Rev. Bode and Rev. Lore will give meditations on the Good Friday theme. If you would like … Continue reading Good Friday Service
The world we live in today feels more divided than ever. In this time of fear, political division, and pushback against civil rights, faith communities are needed – not just to imagine a better world, but to actively help that world come into being. a service about how we can create a culture, here at … Continue reading Radical, Transformational Welcome
A sharing of personal stories by Bruce Bode and Joseph Bednarik about their engagement with poets in their respective careers and their sense of the place of poetry in liberal religion and at QUUF.
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Borrowing a sermon title from a book by Carl Jung, on this Pledge Sunday I look back at my time at QUUF, the vision I had when I arrived, the shape that vision took in my mind while I’ve been here, and what potential I see in the future for the Fellowship.
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For over fifty years, poet Dan Gerber has practiced paying attention to the world he actually lives in through a variety of means, including Zen meditation, deep (and slow) reading, creative writing, and some fly-fishing thrown in for good measure. In our accelerating modern era, within which human attention is ever-more splintered, Dan shares poems, stories, and insights on how he tries – moment by moment – to maintain mindful presence in the world.
About Dan Gerber: Dan Gerber is a poet and novelist visiting Port Townsend in connection with the publication of a new book of poems by Copper Canyon Press, titled Particles: New & Selected Poems. In addition to this new book of poems – his ninth – he has published three novels, two books of non-fiction, and a collection of short stories. Dan’s life has included a good deal of variety – from being a high school teacher, to a professional racecar driver, to a Zen Buddhist monk. He was the co-founder, with Jim Harrison, of the literary magazine Sumac. Born and raised in Fremont, Michigan, he lives with his wife, Debbie, near the Santa Ynez Valley in California.
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Nineteenth century poet Margaret Fuller died in a tragic way in 1850. And it was the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson who was perhaps most devastated by the loss. Bruce Bode portrays Emerson and Kate Lore portrays Fuller in a conversation imagined by Kate.
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“Love” is, indeed, “a many splendored thing” … particularly in the English language where it is used as an umbrella word to cover our positive feelings of everything from our links to inanimate objects to our most intimate human relationships. This sermon will attempt to distinguish some of our different types of love, with a special look, on this Sunday following Valentine’s Day, at “romantic love”.
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This service is about Generation Z – what we have to offer the world, and who we are in spite of how we are perceived.
