Topic: Imagination
When Trusting Your Curiosity Leads to Dancing
When we get mired down in the demands and struggles of life, it can become easy to stifle our curiosity and live life on the surface, rarely going deeper. In this sermon, I explore a well-known New Testament parable and find there an invitation to follow our quest for adventure, to seek knowledge from all … Continue reading When Trusting Your Curiosity Leads to Dancing
Picking Up the Costume Pieces
What I love about children is their unbridled capacity to be silly and laugh at the absurdity of life. It takes me back to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s quote in The Little Prince, “All grown-ups were once children…but only few of them remember it.” The world chips away at us as we grow, leaving fragments of … Continue reading Picking Up the Costume Pieces
The importance of Thinking for Ourselves
On the anniversary of Sophia Lyon Fahs’ death we contemplate her gift of teaching and writing focused on a method of experiential learning that she hoped would enable children to develop their own ideas about religion and spirituality.
To Explore Strange New Worlds…
Science Fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction move us out of the realm of the ordinary and the here and now. They move us into a space where we can play with our preconceptions, our beliefs about the world around us, and possible new ways of thinking and doing. We can test and stretch our values … Continue reading To Explore Strange New Worlds…
Maintaining Sanity: Spiritual Tips for Daily Life
You may be able to relate to a meme that’s been going around on social media that states—“My desire to stay well informed is at odds with my desire to stay sane.” With the news filled with stories of gun violence, racial injustices, limited access to women’s healthcare, and the attack on our planet, how … Continue reading Maintaining Sanity: Spiritual Tips for Daily Life
Going Home by Another Way
On our life’s journey, we too often put down roots smack in the middle of complacency. This plodding, putting one foot in front of the other, looking neither left or right, can cause us to miss opportunities for epiphany. The good news is that we can begin again. And, we can put into practice some … Continue reading Going Home by Another Way