This service is created in the Taize’ style of a reading, a musical interlude, and singing of a single phrase. This rhythm is repeated throughout the service to bring us into deep rest and healing after all the work of the summer and fall. Come and engage in this deeply restorative practice. Reverend Margo Rinehart … Continue reading Healing: A Special Service of Poetry and Harp Music
Martin Luther King, Jr, reminded us that creating a beloved community will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives. What does that ask of us? Are we rigidly holding on to what our brain has experienced and been taught or are we aware of our soul’s … Continue reading Building a much talked about, “Beloved Community,” begins as an inside job.
We are enamored with categorizing people into buckets: me and you, us and them, the people we care about and the others. Fear buoys these separations; Love asks us to defy them. Together, let us try what Love will do. Nate Kremer-Herman is an assistant professor of computer science at Seattle University where his favorite … Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Fearing the Other
