Member Effy Redman will be the featured speaker for this service exploring the experience of spiritual healing. In March of this year, Effy published a memoire called Saving Face. Her publisher describes the book this way: What’s in a smile? Or the absent smile? Saving Face is Effy Redman’s thought-provoking answer. Born with … Continue reading Spiritual Healing
In this unique service, we learn from Ayudha Puja, the ancient tradition in which Hindus honor their tools and machines. We reflect on the ways technology serves our daily lives and explore our responsibility to use these tools for the greater good. If we listened deeply to the machines in our lives, what might we … Continue reading Whir, Buzz, Click, Beep
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
Our theme for the month of October is the practice of listening deeply. Today’s service honors the wisdom of the Jewish High Holy Days and introduces us to Tashlich and the ritual of casting past missteps symbolically into flowing water to let them go and commit to a renewed path. We consider listening deeply to … Continue reading To the End that All Souls Shall Grow into Harmony
Listening for a Change Rev. Joe Cleveland Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Saratoga Springs October 11, 2020 May we “pray without ceasing.” In Unitarian Universalists I have often encountered a resistance to prayer. This tends to be because we tend not to think that some supernatural force is going to enter into the world and … Continue reading Listening for a Change