Hey folks – when we gather this week (10:45 a.m., 3138 Henderson), we’re going to share some Community Time, some music, and some conversation about the series we started last week, “Behind The Curtain – Examining Systems of Belief”. Our prompt for part of that discussion will be an award-winning short film called “The Raisin”. I […]
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Hey folks – it recently occurred to me that although this community has been exploring beliefs for years, I don’t think we’ve ever explicitly considered how they are formed. We’ve kind of treated them as though they simply “are”. And that might be a bit ironic, considering that when we treat our beliefs as “givens”, […]
read moreHey folks – welcome to the May long weekend! If you were planning to go camping, may I recommend joining us instead? The forecast is on my side in this one. 🙂 When we gather (10:45 am, as usual), we’ll have a chance to check in via Community Time, then we’re going to watch a short […]
read moreHey folks – welcome to Mother’s Day weekend. I’m aware that a “special day” comes with both delights and challenges, especially once the greeting card companies get ahold of it. And yet, for all sorts of significant reasons, we collectively pause once a year to mark the unique role, value, and impact that mothers have had […]
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Hey folks – as promised, our series on religious trauma and Religious Trauma Syndrome is drawing to a close. It’s been a while coming, for sure, but I’m glad to be turning the page into this chapter. As we will discover together, reconstruction isn’t simply substituting one belief system for another, but rather the choice […]
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