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
We continue our annual tradition of music and readings to make you smile on the last Sunday morning of the year. In a year when everything really did go viral, will there be anything to laugh about? After losing Justice Ginsberg, James Bond, and Alex Trebec, is there any reason to go on? How will … Continue reading Mirth and Music — 2020 Apocalypse Edition
Join us, as you are, for a Christmas Eve Service of music and story. Come with your family, come with yourself, come to remember why we put our faith in joy. This is the joy that moves through the earth while you sleep, the joy that lightens the sky when you wake, the joy that … Continue reading Joy to the World! A Christmas Eve Service
John O’Donohue wrote: “The light on offer is enough only to guide the next step.” As we move across the threshold of Winter Solstice, we recognize the light on offer can come in many forms: It can be a light of connection, of a simple kindness, of an insight, of a serendipity. It can be … Continue reading The Light on Offer: Reflections on Winter Solstice
What meaning can we draw from the times when we fall to our knees, cut the mooring, or walk alone in the desert? How do we understand the tumble of grief, and the sinking of hope? It is one thing to experience suffering and another to see it as a spiritual journey that breaks us … Continue reading The Breaking Time – A Theology of Suffering
What do you name the invisible arms that hold you in the dark night and in the bright of day? What do you trust with your heart, your prayers, your secrets? What is the thought, the feeling, the knowing, that you lean into when the world shivers and shakes under you? What holds you? To … Continue reading What Holds You? The Heart of Theology
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. Many of us thought that the Covid pandemic would be the event that compelled the public to return to a respect for science and to a recognition of our interdependence. In reality, neither of these things has … Continue reading Church in the Era of Extreme Events: Reflections for our Fellowship from Resilience Thinking
