Liturgy
Prayer of Anguish and Lament – Christina Rowntree
Holy One, The devastation in Mariupol appals us We are mute with rage. silence – Our tears fall, we lament an atrocity beyond comprehension. We join our sisters, young…
Read MoreThe View Through Many Lenses – Ann Drummond
July 25, 2021. Reflection John 6:1-21 Given the age group of this community there would be few among us who have not heard many sermons/reflections or bible study discussions on this…
Read MoreNAIDOC Week Reflection 11.7.21 – Steve Martin
Introduction Today marks the end of NAIDOC Week 2021. NAIDOC’s history started in the 1920s as a boycott of Australia day in protest against the status and treatment of indigenous…
Read MoreGod is too big to lose anyone – Kathy Hore
It happened on a Sunday morning in my home church, Manor Baptist, in San Antonio, Texas in the mid-eighties. Our minister’s final message before departing for a new pulpit was…
Read MoreTrinity Sunday Reflection by Ann Drummond
“In Dickenson’s time and place the Trinity was a hot topic that engendered much debate. Is Divinity triune or one? The Unitarian church was born of that debate after all.…
Read MoreReflecting on Wisdom by Jan D
Although I have for a long time been seduced by the brilliance of Dickinson’s poetry, I was introduced to this particular poem when listening to a lecture on trans- feminism…
Read MoreProbiotics & eco-kinship & puppy yoga
I have a suitcace of empty Yakult bottles I have saved because I think probiotics illustrates the symbiotic relationship between humanity, bacteria and all life. So one day, when free…
Read MoreSeasons of Creation – A celebration of Rivers
Beginners by Denise Levertov But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope? –so…
Read More…and now for something a little bit different
Fifth Sunday in June: 30 June 2019 at 2 p.m. Sophia’s Spring is experimenting with an occasional series of different approaches to church. The first such service is on the…
Read MoreVale Mary Oliver
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. …
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