Topic: Indigenous Wisdom

Beginning a Story

We explore beginnings, famous and not-so-famous first sentences and paragraphs, as a way of beginning to explore story and story-telling as a spiritual practice. Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. –from “Elegy in Joy” by Muriel … Continue reading Beginning a Story

What Listening Does

Today we explore listening as a spiritual practice and as a liberal religious practice. What is it to listen? What does listening do for someone? What does listening do to us?   Sermon audio Sermon What Listening Does Rev. Joe Cleveland October 13, 2024   On one of his walks, the poet William Wordsworth happens … Continue reading What Listening Does