In the dark of winter, deep in our collective psyches, hides the divine dance between our masculine and feminine self. It is the drama of the winter solstice that enacts the awakening of the divine feminine. Beckoned, kissed and honoured, the divine feminine emerges and takes her place of wisdom. To join any of our … Continue reading The Divine Drama in Winter Solstice
There is no better way to understand the emotions and feelings of another person than to walk in their shoes. A close second is to portray a character that walks in their shoes. This is where drama comes in. Through imagining, we experience situations and lives not our own. Those experiences can be vividly real … Continue reading Drama and the Art of Empathy
The art of Indigenous painter Ken Monkman has shaken and shocked both the Canadian art world and the political world. Monkman is a visual disrupter at the intersection of art, history, sexuality and politics. To be a creative disrupter is to take familiar images and insert the unfamiliar. In so doing the observer is shocked … Continue reading Artist as Disruptor
How we observe changes us. He said, ‘See my wife’. And then sensing that wasn’t enough, he said, ‘Behold my wife.’ If you slow down and read that last line again, you’ll likely feel a difference between seeing and beholding. They are not the same thing. When we behold another, we shift our relationship from … Continue reading Behold and Be Seen
On the eve of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment response in Glasgow, Scotland, we watch as world leaders maneuver words around real action on addressing environmental catastrophe. (*Remember our theme this month is Non-fiction and the art of Truth Speaking!) While the world leaders talk, what can we do to shift our own … Continue reading Think like a Rock! Sensing our Interconnection with Nature
Reconciliation is a beautiful word and a beautiful process, filled with dignity, wisdom and honourable human work. The deep kind of work that all our relationships deserve if we are to honour ourselves and the people we respect. There is much to learn about reconciliation from the Indigenous people of this land. Lessons that we … Continue reading Truth and Reconciliation
In the season of Sukkot, the Jewish festival of harvest in a time of exile, we reflect on what it means to belong. We ask ourselves: Who are our people and how do we know they are our tribe? What sustains us? The Jews were sustained by God’s protection. Does our living tradition, the covenants … Continue reading ReOpen to Belonging
After a summer of rest and renewal, and a year and a half of social restrictions we begin the 2021-22 year with hope for worshiping, singing and celebrating together in-person again. As the hybrid service model is still a month away, we will be regathering online for this first Sunday Service of the year. Rev … Continue reading Deep Waters: Ingathering Water Ceremony
Each year when we celebrate the ending of another Fellowship year, we offer a Flower Communion, a uniquely Unitarian ritual. It began in Prague on June 4,1923 by Rev Norbert Capek, founder of the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia. He identified a need to unite the diverse congregants of his church with a symbolic ritual, without … Continue reading Summer Blessings – a Flower Communion
