Rev. Ian White Maher introduces The Seekers Table with the first in a series of Nine Facebook Live Videos. This one focused on the discernment of “Learning to Listen.”
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=190112858921964
“It’s in the listening that life transforms!”
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I am an ordained Interfaith Minister yet I serve a number of Unitarian Universalist congregations as guest minister, retreat leader and consultant and am often mistaken for a UU minister. I am not! While I believe their stated principles have merit, I do not agree with all their organization’s directives (ie: church and state much? 😉) Yet I have much fondness for the congregations I serve, and several UU colleagues I count as dear friends. As it is a small religion many people in my interfaith community do not always know of it, and if they do only nominally so. The congregation of Idaho Falls was the focus of a podcast a few months ago. The interviewer did a good job of “covering” what Unitarian Universalism is, what its historical roots and local congregation’s origins are, as well as offers an observer’s glimpse of what many Sunday services look like in a UU congregation. I especially appreciate the one-on-one interviews he conducted with multigenerational congregation members. In doing so he gives listeners a good framing for what this faith path is in the hearts and minds of members. The evolution of UUism has brought it to a corporate mode of ops that leave many congregants seeking elsewhere for spiritual nourishment, spiritual sermons: that’s where I, and other spiritual interfaith colleagues, come in. It is a blessing to serve where we can to bring the light of hope and connection with humanity’s spiritual aspects.
Starhawk is leading a 7-session online course!! Click the link for more information and to join in this magical adventure! Each session will include a teaching, some practical exercises, a ritual, and homework. Choose your adventure: register for all 7 sessions, and automatically receive the links to the live webinar as well as the recording, or sign up for one at a time.
Magical Activism: Live Digital Ritual Series w/Starhawk
“We need magic to help us stay grounded, sane, and able to sleep as the tension mounts—and a little support from our friends would be nice, too! We need magic to counter the manipulative magic that floods the internet and the airwaves every day with toxic energies, to help us discern truth and provide an antidote to the poisons. We need magic not as a substitute for action, but to further our own resilience as we dream the world we want and channel our energies effectively to make it real.”
Remembering Starhawk in Concord, MA at Twinkle’s Place with Friends and at First Parish UU.
And Twinkle’s Interview with Starhawk at the TV Studio.
For all women who need to hear this right now.
#enddomesticviolence #protectwomen
Twinkle’s dear friend Mary Cuchetti Roig did the score for “Cultivating the Wild” film and Twinkle will be attending next week while in Florida. Friends, please join if you can!
“Cultivating the Wild” screening
6 p.m. on January 29th, 2020
DSC Southeast Museum of Photography, Hosseini Center, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd.
Contact Eric Breitenbach:
eric.breitenbach@daytonastate.edu for more information.
A second screening will take place at 6 p.m. on May 6, at the same location.
Join us in Tara Brach’s Radical Compassion challenge. Stemming from the wisdom and practices in her book of the same title, Tara guides participants through insights each day, grants access to one on one interviews with her celebrity guests, and offers a guided meditation to set your compassionate focus each day for 10 days! (January 21st-30th, 2020)And…it’s all FREE.
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Twinkle and friends are taking part in this fun wellness dance/exercise class led by the amazing Darcy Rollins! Monday evenings at 6:00PM January 27th-March 16th, 2020. Join us and attend as many sessions as you can. Twinkle will host refreshments are her place afterwords for each week except for January 27th, and March 9th as she will be in Florida and California on those dates (respectively).
In less than five minutes Sofia Avery-Kapulski delivers her “Euphorically Dumbfounded” homily (which is really better titled a micro-sermon with maximum impact) in which she confronts, delineates, summarizes and wholly determinizes existentially the very things that confound humanity. She speaks concisely and articulately of necessary and possibly immanent new cosmos, multiverses, symbiotic interconnectivity, numerical concepts and incomprehensible theories of time and matter and life and death. She declares boldly, “I don’t believe in ‘God.’ But I believe that entropy is coming for the universe with everything in it and that this universe will die and no mind will be active to even recall what happened.”
“Some good news to share. The Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is pleased to announce its unanimous nomination of the Rev. Meg Riley and Charles Du Mond for election as the next co-moderators of the UUA, at the special election to be held at General Assembly (GA) 2020, in Providence, RI. If elected, they will serve in this position for a term beginning at the conclusion of GA 2020 and ending at the conclusion of GA 2025.”
Meg is my Senior Minister where I am an affiliate community minister at the Church of the Larger Fellowship. She announced her retirement a few weeks ago. She will be missed at CLF. I am deeply grateful personally and for our UU world to see her nominated as co-Moderator.
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