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This Sunday, we lift up and celebrate sacred and ancient indigenous knowledge, reflecting on lessons of a grateful existence. Through this commitment to the art of gratitude, we cultivate a sense of appreciation of the fullness of life. How can this indigenous practice reorient us in a life of abundant blessings?
This week, we explore the vulnerable and intimate experience of interpersonal repair. By exploring a Jewish practice as articulated by the philosopher Maimonides, we engage on a journey of making amends. This journey is both victim-centered and self-transformational, and it neither begins or ends in apology. Centered in the wisdom of the spirit and with the intention of initiating deep healing to those…
This Sunday, we gather in a space of uncertainty and brokenness. Building upon our monthly theme, I invite us into a reflection on the theology of repair. We cultivate that which grounds us amidst any situation where the heart, spirit, and body are in a state of disease. What is broken can be made whole, a Jewish wisdom tale tells us. We…
In my summer reading of the Tao te Ching, I was surprised that many chapters of this sacred text spoke to the secular matters of government and leadership. It occurred to me that it might be fitting to explore Lao-tzu’s views on these topics during the presidential election season. As we bridge the Soul Matters themes of Deep Listening (October) and Repair…
Those who have passed through the veil of the living to the dead, who have departed from the realm of the mortal, who are part of all that is beautiful and awe-filled, are never truly gone. This Sunday, we explore how our ancestors live on as we listen to their voices in the whisper of the wind, in an answer to prayers, in a moment…