Today on an NPR blog I read about a symposium (at Concordia College in Minnesota) regarding “re-enchantment.” The posting caught my eye because “re-enchantment” is one of my forms of sacred play. From the College’s website: Awakening to Wonder: Re-enchantment in a Post-Secular Age Sept. 14-15 The symposium will explore the role of wonder in [...]
Big day at church tomorrow. A new pastor will be offering his message, and because we operate via congregational polity, we will then vote about whether he will henceforth be the pastor of our little church. Then in the afternoon, at 2 PM, Marian will be at the Real Food Co-op to speak with us [...]
Only by understanding the Universe as a vast, holistic system and Earth as a unit within it can we help restore balance to that unit. Only by placing Earth and its ecosystems – about which we now understand so much – at the centre of all our thinking can we avert ecological disaster . Only [...]
Today my friend Gail stopped by on her way traveling from West Hartford, CT to Syracuse, NY. Reconnecting with old friends is heartwarming. We told each other stories about our lives and caught up. With such a soul friend, even though time had passed, it was as though we had seen each other yesterday; the [...]
Brace yourselves; here comes the C-word and the J-word, not to mention the R-word. Popular author Anne Rice has “quit” Christianity. On her Facebook page last week she wrote: “Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out…I remain committed to Christ as always, but not to being ‘Christian’ or to being part of Christianity. It’s [...]
On the sanctuarywithoutwalls events blog you will find a post which includes the registration brochures for events which will be facilitated by my friend Phoebe and me: Growing Older, Growing Wiser: Becoming an Elderwoman ~ For women 55 and older, on the second Tuesday of each month, September 14, 2010 – March 8, 2011 ~ [...]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After spending a week at a science and religion conference with more than 100 people, I came home to my husband’s college reunion at our home, with about twenty of his college friends, some of whom he hadn’t seen for forty years. This morning I was on a radio show about the upcoming series [...]
A blog I read this morning sparked the idea (thank you, Meadowsweet & Myrrh) to ask the many readers and visitors of this blog to come out of hiding. I invite you to leave a comment, say hello — even if you’re just a lurker, even if you’ve never left a comment here before, why [...]
