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How to Have Difficult Conversations

Mar 27, 2022

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Wellness

8th Principle, Abraham Lincoln, Alternate facts, ambiguity, assuming the worst, Backlash, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Hurtful jokes, justice-heartedness, polarization, QAnon

To be a spiritual being having a human experience: of the many meanings this carries, the one we will explore together today is the having of difficult conversations. Just for strangers to meet and begin a conversation–for the timing to be just right–this is already so difficult! But there is even more difficulty—unique difficulty—when you…
Voyage to Aliveness: Islam and the Powerful Way of Jihad

Feb 14, 2021

Love and Justice, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, World Religions

CAIR Ohio, Five Pillars, Greater Jihad, Huston Smith, Islam, Jihad, Karen Armstrong, Khadija, Lesser Jihad, Muhammad, QAnon, Rabia of Basra, Teatime for Peace, Terrorism, trauma

Rabia of Basra has the distinction of being the first female Sufi mystic in the history of Islam. She lived around 1300 years ago, and one of her stories is about the time a robber broke into her home, and what happened next. The robber broke in, only to find that there was nothing worth…