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Jan-27-2019: Staying Embodied through Times of Physical Change
Guest Speaker: Sarah Louise Turner Our bodies both connect us to and give us information about the world around us. How do we learn to heed the spiritual messages that our bodies are telling us and how do we find spiritual equilibrium when, due to illness or pain, those messages aren’t trustworthy? Join actress and […]
Jan-20-2019: We Have Come to be Danced
Guest Speaker: Sheila Langston This body. Your body. Your particular body. All that this body has lived through, endured, loved—every breath, every beat of the heart—is a dance. We will listen together to what our bodies have to say, and allow each to expand, to speak, to express itself through movement and music. From wheelchairs, […]
Jan-13-2019: Everything I Know
Rev. Debra Thorne When I turned 60 I decided to write a book about everything I know. The book is slow in coming but the meditation on what I know has been fruitful. The premise is that life experience is a great university of the soul and everything that happens to us is a lesson. […]
Jan-06-2019: This Fire is Love
Rev. Debra Thorne We begin the new year with our annual Fire Communion. This service is for the whole family and asks ‘what do you want to bring into the world this year?’ We will sing, dance, drum and share stories about creating a world that we want to live in: a world of justice […]
Dec-23-2018: A Blue Christmas
Rev. Debra Thorne When delight goes out of the world and one’s heart is heavy… when the seasonal pressures drain the pleasure from your days… when your own life doesn’t mesh with the frenzy of consumerism… when good cheer seems distant—these are the times we need each other and the permission to be ourselves, however […]
Dec-02-2018: Resistance Never Ends
Resistance Never Ends Guest Speaker: Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan The celebration of Chanukah provides an annual reminder of the journey from oppression through war to freedom. This struggle towards freedom is continuously replayed within the Jewish faith and resonates with the Jewish experience today. Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan will be leading us in song and […]
Nov-25-2018: Rebel with a Cause
Marilyn Medén and Heather Brown What makes some people able to think outside the box? Marilyn Medén and Heather Brown will explore what makes a creative thinker, and then give each of you a chance to have fun and stretch your thinking. They’ll ask: What allowed famous inventers and changemakers like Edison and Darwin to […]