“When the body and mind dissolve, they do not exist anywhere; any more than musical notes lay heaped up anywhere…In exactly the same way, all elements of being…come into existence after having been non-existent, and having come into existence pass away. There is no self residing in body and mind…but...
New Member Sunday- Imagine if we obsessed about the things we loved about ourselves. (author unknown) We are often harder on ourselves than anyone else. How might we offer compassion to all the parts of ourselves, including those we might not always like?
After Jesus’s life, a religion about Jesus arose. However, there were many people reflecting on Jesus’s life and teaching at the time other than those who accepted the canonical teachings of this new Christianity. And while those people’s writings were considered heretical and destroyed or buried, some were found in...
“We are being conditioned to shut down—slowly, steadily, and almost imperceptibly. The barrage of cruelty, confusion, spectacle, and spin has a cumulative effect. It wears on our capacity to feel, to care, to respond with presence rather than reflex. We are being trained, through repetition, to expect harm, and then...
With laws restricting abortion rights and transgender medical restrictions, we might ask: to whom/what do our bodies belong? Rev. Tom will share some thoughts and theologies about this.
Welcome, safety, and belonging ask three central questions about relationships. When someone comes into our lives or into our congregation: Does he/she/they feel welcomed? Does he/she/they feel safe with us? Does he/she/they feel that there is a place for them in our lives?
