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Mission Statement:
Our purpose is encouraging, loving, and supporting a diverse group of people who gather to deepen their experience of the inner light of God. We direct this inner light outward in service to others to share the love of Christ.
**Following the teachings of the Living Christ, we are an open, loving, and affirming community.
We believe that God’s Light is inherent within all people. There are no exceptions.**
Category Archives: Messages
Family Life
This passage was never intended to be a morality tale to teach children how to behave. Nor was it a hand book for child raising. This Jesus whose parentage was unusual to say the least and the circumstances of whose … Continue reading →
Advent 2009 Week Four Day Four
Advent hope arises and becomes strong not by abstract discussions of the meaning of justice or even by clear visions of the type of reforms that are needed but by solidarity with the victims of the injustice by which some … Continue reading →
Week Four Day Three
The Magnificat is a song of joy for being chosen to bear the Messiah. But it also expresses another sort of joy: ‘He Has Brought down the Powerful from their Thrones, and Lifted up the Lowly’. The hopes of the … Continue reading →
advent week four day two
The cries of the poor and hungry are never far from any of the authors of the Bible. Compassion runs through the Biblical narrative from beginning to end. In the next to last chapter of the last book of … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three
Preparing for the coming of the Lord does not mean turning our backs on the world, opting out, becoming monks. We all have to work, to buy, to save, and to consume. We must start where we are, whether … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three, Day Four
Advent 2009 – A World In Waiting Week Three – A New Morality Day Four – A False Dawn Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk – a formidable trio. More or less contemporaries. Prophets of doom, who, with the most violent … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three, Day Three
…since the Protestant reformation, a Puritan ethic has virtually sanctified hard work and savings, while deferring gratification and treating pleasure with suspicion. Now, in an age where consumer goods are available in abundance, the challenge may be to see these … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week Three, Day Two
Although we are infinitely more prosperous now than we were even fifty years ago let alone in Smith’s time are we happier? Economists, such as Tibor Scitovsky, began to express doubts over a quarter of a century ago. In his … Continue reading →
Advent Week Three Day One
In modern times the sense of citizenship has played an important role as a crucial backdrop for economics, including for the philosophy of Adam Smith and for the perspective of the founders of the American Republic. The ‘pursuit of happiness’ … Continue reading →
Advent III
The hope of Advent is described by the prophets as a dawning of a new age, marked by peace and plenty, by banqueting and feasting, by security and rest. Don’t let the “new age” handle upset you. It is … Continue reading →
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