Spirituality

Sacredness in Stone

Nov 27, 2022

Beloved Community, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

astrology, Black Stone, Chartres Cathedral, crystal healing, Francis David, Gobekli Tepe, Henry David Thoreau, labyrinth, Spirituality, Stonehenge, Uluru, Wailing Wall, Walden Pond, West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church

One of the many stones I have taken from vacation spots sits on our West Shore altar right now. It’s from the shore of Lake Michigan, when I was still in seminary all of 20+ years ago. It’s sizeable, bigger than my fist, and it has a vein of quartz separating top from bottom. As…
The Voice in Our Head

Nov 7, 2021

Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spirituality, Wellness, World Religions

Chatter, Distancing, Ethan Kross PhD, Immersing, Spirituality, Stoicism, Threat vs challenge, Viktor Frankl

As a spiritual being having a human experience, I like to follow the science. Not that I disvalue more traditional sources of spiritual wisdom. But it’s thrilling when they and science dovetail. It’s thrilling when wisdom thousands of years old and cutting-edge science sing in harmony. I had a moment of thrill, recently, when I…
Stay-At-Home Spirituality

Mar 22, 2020

Beloved Community, Sermon, Spirituality, Stewardship

grace, love, social distancing, social recession, Spirituality, stress, this too shall pass

I’ll start this morning with an old story about a King, who one day commanded all his wise women and men to come to him. He charged them, “Make me a motto that would be appropriate in every situation, as useful in prosperity as in adversity, something wise and true, words that might in any…

Spirituality

Sacredness in Stone

The Voice in Our Head

Stay-At-Home Spirituality