Sermons
Conscientious Objectors and Deserters from the Army in Russian/Ukrainian War (Guest Speaker: Mikheil Elizbarashvili)
Mikheil (Misah) Elizbarashvili is from Georgia (the country), born in Tbilisi on March 8, 1979. He is married and has three children. He received a Bachelor of International Law in 2005 from Tbilisi International University of Business and Law. He has been an AVP (Alternatives to Violence Project) facilitator since 2008.
Tents, Hills, and Doing What is Right
Queries:
What is the invitation, hope, or challenge of this Psalm–to me?
What is the invitation, hope, or challenge of this Psalm–to us?
Pride and Joy
Queries:
What joy have you found through affirming yourself, your need, your hopes?
How have those who cherish you supported your liberation and becoming?
What can “Pride” teach us about God’s Love? About ourselves?
Why is the spirit of Pride disruptive? What does it disrupt?
How can joy be an act of resistance?
What can the joyful resistance of the LGBTQIA+ community teach us all?
Centered in Love: SCYMF Annual Sessions
What does it mean to be “centered in Love?” What do you need? What do you need from us? What do others need? What do they need from us? What do you do that could be called Love? What makes that “Love”? When do you experience Love? When have you felt loved by this community?
A Celtic Meeting for Worship
Queries:
Do you have a place where you feel closer to God, a thin place? What’s it like for you there?
What does it mean to honor the sacredness and utilize the power of our bodies?
How do you practice simplicity in your life? What difference does this practice make?
How can I honor the sacredness of the elements–Earth, air, fire, water?
How can we participate in God’s work of “setting everything right on Earth”?
Our Demons
Queries:
Where are the real demons in our world? What can be done about them?
Where is a perspective shift needed in our understanding of what others are facing?
What kind of pressure are people under? What kind of pressure am I under?
How has listening to another person’s story made a difference–in my life or in theirs?
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