READING ~ Poem: The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, by Annie Kagan The same intelligence that grows trees from seeds, that lets birds fly, that waves the ocean and gives birth…
Sermons
READING - from Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather’s Blessings, Riverhead Books, New York, 2000: My grandfather was a man of many blessings. These blessings were prescribed generations ago by the…
READING - Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy, pp. 18, 43-45 READING - 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:1; Mark 3:20-30 SERMON - A House Divided Over twenty years ago, the famed…
READING ~ My Dreams, They Matter by Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs Though at times I may forget who I am or who becoming, My dreams: they matter. When I make space…
READING ~ from The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration by Vera Nazarian Once upon a time there were two countries at war with each other. In order to make peace after…
READING ~ from “The Embers and the Stars” by Czech philosopher Erazim Kohak “...Certainly, humans can become wholly absorbed in the preoccupations of time. As there are humans who are…
READING – from “Introduction: Connections” by Suzanne Simard excerpts from Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Nothing lives on our planet without death and decay. From…
OPENING WORDS: This Is How We Are Called by Kimberly Beyer-Nelson In the hours before the birds stream airborne with chiming voice, a silent breath rests in the pines, and…
OPENING WORDS ~ a poem by Hafiz, a 14th century Persian lyric poet I sometimes forget that I was created for Joy. My mind is too busy My heart is…
READING: from Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs, Riverhead Books, New York, 1997: For T. H. Huxley, who coined the term in 1869, agnosticism was as demanding as any moral, philosophical,…
