Sermons
Wonderfully Made
Queries:
How am I repairing a negative self-image or nurturing a positive one?
How can I practice humility as an act of love for myself and others?
What amazing things can I do? What amazing things can we do, together?
When has being fully known–and loved–been liberating for me?
Who is with me, to the end?
Extended Open Worship
Queries:
What do I notice? What clarity am I finding in what I notice?
What do I find troubling? What do I find inspiring?
How do I feel challenged?
What action(s) am I being called to take?
Where can I practice humility instead of trying to look for recognition?
Who can I make space for, not because of what they can give me, but simply because every person has worth?
Quaker Traditions for Troubled Times (Guest Speaker: Eileen Flanagan)
Eileen Flanagan is an award-winning author, speaker, and Quaker activist. She has served as both clerk and campaign director of Earth Quaker Action Team and has trained people across the United States in nonviolent strategies for change. In recent months, she worked with Daniel Hunter to create both online trainings and a peacekeeper workbook that are being used by tens of thousands of today’s activists.
Her newest book, Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation, offers lessons, not only for those concerned about climate change, but for all those who want to work across our divisions for a better world. Eileen carries a minute of religious service from Chestnut Hill Meeting which has been affirmed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Read more at eileenflanagan.com.
Rotten Grapes
Queries:
What have humans created that is not serving the common good?
What needs to be laid down? What needs to be nurtured?
Where I am glimpsing new ways of ordering our lives together?
What makes it hard for people to let go? What support do they need?
How do we respect the individual while criticizing the institution?
What We Treasure
Queries:
What do you treasure? What has your heart?
What would reassure you, in the midst of your fears?
What good have you experienced by letting go of possessions?
What lasts?
What does it mean to be ready? Ready for what/whom?
Let There Be Greening! Continuing the Work of Earth Ministry/WA Interfaith Power and Light
Worship God in the Grandeur of Creation!
God’s majesty—in the pounding waves
God’s strength—in the wind
God’s creative work—in the volcano
God’s destructive work—in the tsunami
God’s love—in the flickering fire
god’s emptiness—in the desert
God’s constancy –in the seasons
Worship God—Give Thanks—Make peace
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