yoga

Be Here Now

Aug 28, 2022

Sermon, Spirituality, Stewardship, Wellness, World Religions

Jon Kabat-Zinn, meditation, mindfulness, politics of resentment, Siddartha Gautama, spiritual bypassing, The Buddha, yoga, Zen

We begin with an old story about a traveler who came upon a farmer hoeing in his field. Eager to rest his feet, the wanderer hailed the farmer, who seemed happy enough to come over and talk for a moment. “What sort of people live in the next town?” asked the stranger. “What were the…
You Are More Than That

Oct 25, 2020

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

Child of God, compassion, identity, Islam, judgmentalism, love, Malcolm X, Mecca, racism, sibling rivalry, yoga

One of my personal passions which you may or may not know about is yoga. The journey of any given yoga class from beginning to end is, first of all, unrolling my 68 inches long and 24 inches wide mat on the floor and getting on it, and this will become the center of my…