Watch the service HERE. How do we lean into abundance and hope when we have no guarantee of the outcome? How is the story of Noah a hopeful one about creation and a cautionary tale about climate change? And why is the story of Noah and the ark, mythological though it is, an ideal fable … Continue reading Noah Built An Ark Before He Had Water
PLEASE BRING A MEMENTO OR HEIRLOOM FOR OUR COMMUNAL ALTAR Watch the service HERE. What is it about objects that can evoke such poignant and potent memories? What lost piece of your life might you be grateful to have returned by the “Thrift Shop Angel” of New York City? Why do we keep the memorabilia … Continue reading All Souls and Día de los Muertos – “The Thrift Shop Angel and the Power of Memory”
Watch the service HERE. Popular songs, art works, photos, favorite places, sayings, post-its, fridge magnets, popular music and other influences in our lives. We are all on an individual spiritual path and are influenced by many recognized and subliminal experiences. We are always in connection with life’s subtle lessons. This will be a light-hearted look … Continue reading The Seventh Source
Watch the service HERE. When we are children we are captivated by stories, the wonder and adventure of them thrill us, the champion conquering the fearsome beast reassures us, the happy-ever-after ending is expected. As adults we understand that not all stories are thrilling, some are life-changing. Sometimes the beast conquers the champion. And life … Continue reading Share your story, and you are not alone. I hear your story, I am not alone.
Watch the service HERE. The poet W. B. Yeats said it a hundred years ago, “things fall apart.” The promises of a global community have failed; we’re left with echo chambers that do more to exclude than to include. How do we achieve community in a world that is fragmented and suspicious?Worship Leader: Rev. Katie … Continue reading Things Fall Apart
Each of us has a shadow side; a mirror-image self made of traits we aren’t proud of and don’t express. Carl Jung described the shadow as “the thing one has no wish to be.” Understanding our shadows – the things we don’t want to be – can help us understand ourselves and our deepest values. … Continue reading The Shadow Knows
The theologian and mythologist Karen Armstrong once described religion as an act of the highest imagination. The longing to express and describe the ineffable leads us naturally into the wellspring of our deepest creative impulses. Storyteller Will Hornyak shares poems and myths that speak to our natural impulse toward the sacred in art and expression. … Continue reading Myth, Metaphor and Mystery: The Masks of God – How Imagination and Creativity Calls to Us as Spiritual Practices
View the service HERE. The people of Oregon passed a referendum that allows psilocybin mushrooms to be used for treatment and spiritual purposes in Oregon. Psychedelic mushrooms will be highly regulated and yet still fairly available starting in 2023. What does that have to do with you? For one thing, your community minister, Rev. Katie … Continue reading Magic Mushrooms and You
View the service HERE. In this time of so much personal and collective illness, upheaval, and brokenness, how do we find a way to be in the present creatively and find grounding? We explore the value of committing to a creative project every day, and seeing where this practice leads, despite the ups and downs … Continue reading Creativity as a Healing Practice
View service HERE. Come join us for a lively look at Masks. Masks can be fun but they can also help us feel safe, confident or even loved. We’ll talk about the masks we wear, what they hide, and what they reveal about ourselves and our world. Come to this creative service led by Carol Knox. Join … Continue reading Who Is Behind That Mask?
