Friday, December 20, 2013

Birthday Musing

Rev. Peg Morgan

December 1, 2013

Today is Rev. Peg’s birthday…not a round number, but almost…so given that this is HER day, she plans to sort through her head and heart for some life lessons and wisdom.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Kiss Your Dragon

Rev. Linda Kaufman

October 27, 2013

Rev. Kaufman is a Unitarian Universalist minister serving as Chaplain for Swedish Hospital. “Kiss Your Dragon” asserts that we humans are the only species that lives every day with the knowledge we will die. How do we hold this tension of life and death, joy and sorrow, in healthy life-sustaining ways?

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Pema Chodron Retreat III: Of Simmering & Seeing More Deeply

Rev. Peg Morgan

October 20, 2013

Come along on a spiritual retreat, as Rev. Peg shares wisdom from author, and Buddhist leader Pema Chodron. Today we will be exploring the spiritual practice of loving kindness. 
 
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

What Would Be Enough?

Rev. Peg Morgan

September 15, 2013

Today Rev. Peg will ponder the value of this community, for ourselves on this human journey together, and for those outside of the walls of our house of peace.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Pema Chodron Retreat: Part 2

Rev. Peg Morgan

September 8, 2013

Come along on a spiritual retreat, as Rev. Peg shares wisdom from author, and Buddhist leader Pema Chodron. Pema leads the first Tibetan Abbey for westerners, located in Nova Scotia. The first sermon in this series is already podcasted. Today we will be exploring the spiritual goal of equanimity…internal peacefulness.

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

A Retreat with Pema Chodron

Rev. Peg Morgan

August 4, 2013

This past nine months our congregation’s spiritual study group has been attending, via DVDs, a retreat with Pema Chodron, Buddhist teacher/nun of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. Today Rev. Peg will share some of the teachings that our group has found most helpful in deepening our spiritual lives, both in our relationship with ourselves, and our relationship with others.  Today’s sermon will be one of a series of sermons based upon this Buddhist retreat and will focus on the spiritual practice of nurturing our natural goodness, starting where we are, and observing what is happening when our hearts close down. 

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Combating Apathy: Everything I Needed to Know about Changing the World I Learned from Superman

Marcus Green, author, speaker, and friend of our Congregation

July 21, 2013

Another high-profile “Superman” movie is due out this summer. Marcus will comment on the idea of a world not changed by an extraordinary man or woman but by ordinary men and woman with a willingness to do the extraordinary. The real life heroes we often admire, King, Tubman, Gandhi, Milk and others, possessed the same raw ingredients that all of us possess if we so choose to use them.

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