This isn’t a social club. This is a faith reaching back 500 years. A tradition that calls us, through our interdependence, to love and justice. Once called we ask, ‘How do we open our hearts and our community to all who need a place of courage and resilience? What inspires us to be a community … Continue reading This Deep-Rooted Faith
With all the divisions that we experience and antagonisms that current events display, we can be tempted to believe that we are either on our own or with the tiny group with which we share views. The reality is that all of us are inextricably connected. We do not need a global pandemic or other … Continue reading The Truth We Resist
Covid restrictions have revealed to us the priorities and blindness’s of our society. Some of us may be wondering: why is it okay to go to Costco, but not okay to go to the fellowship? Why can I go to a restaurant, but I can’t go to a choir rehearsal? As a spiritual community we … Continue reading Covid, Control and Soul
The gods of love and heart break are inviting you to an intoxicating revelry. They promise there will be dancing and laughter, and perhaps some tears of release. They will touch on the many forms of love that we have available to us; the affectionate, the enduring, self and selfless. From the romantic to the … Continue reading Broken Hearts Dance Club
To join on Zoom, please click on this NATIONAL SERVICE LINK a few minutes before 10 a.m. PT We often talk about Unitarian Universalism as a transformational faith – and yet to be transformed means to take a risk. How is it that we are averse to taking such risks when it comes to widening the circle … Continue reading A Faith Worth Failing For – National Service at 10am
Aging is inevitable and unpredictable. It is an act of hope and optimism, laced with fear and dread. A mystery. When did you first realize that you were aging? Was it at 10 or at 50? At every stage there are opportunities and lessons to be learned. It’s thought that the last third of life … Continue reading Serenity & Ferocity: Aging as Spiritual Maturity
Energy flows through matter, animating the lump of clay we call our home. Our tender strong bodies are moved by breath to stretch and bounce and tap and swirl. We are ignited by taste and smell and touch into realms of pleasure. Our creative bodies call us into lands of ecstasy. What embodied spiritual practice … Continue reading We Have Come To Be Danced
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience,” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. Anne shares her difficult journey of leaving a fundamentalist religion as well as insights from her whirlwind year of experimenting with two dozen spiritual practices—from singing to solitude to going to a witch camp and heading out on … Continue reading Lessons From My Year of Living Spiritually: A Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life
“On a very dark night, with a group of seven young guys, I started my journey to find my stolen freedom. In narrow rugged trails across the mountains, we walked for hours trying to pass the Syrian borders to get to Turkey. Everything seemed to be under control until we were attacked by the “Jandirma”, … Continue reading Rising from the Ashes
Doorways can be shut to keep us safe, or keep others out. An open door can be an invitation to adventures both wonderful and dangerous. Janus, the Roman God of gates and doors and transitions, guards the liminal transition into the new year, and new worlds. He gave this month its’ name. Stepping through … Continue reading Doorways
