The Fragments of Her: A Meditation on Memory and Love - Rev. Ali KC Bell
In this soul-deep service, I’ll speak the truth of my own grief—of what it means to love someone whose memory is fading, and to keep remembering anyway. Together, we’ll honor the tenderness of memory, the ache of forgetting, and the fierce, faithful ways we carry love forward.
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Moral Injury and Modern Life - Aisha Hauser
The concept of moral injury is a phenomenon of distress when people witness horrors that contradict one's deeply held beliefs. Humans in the past few decades have been experiencing moral injury when we witness the horrors in Gaza and the horrors here in the U.S. with seemingly no way to stop them. We will explore ways to maintain our sense of self, justice and the will to continue fighting for a kind and equitable world.
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Stop Hiding Your Light- Donté Hilliard
If self-care is communal care and communal care is self-care, who benefits when we hide or dim our light; our unique manifestation of the Source/Force of life? Join us this week as we re-shape and reframe our relationship to ourselves and the (often problematic) metaphor of light.
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Joy Is an Act of Resistance - Rev. Dr. Michael Tino
Poet Toi Derricotte once wrote that “joy is an act of resistance.” We will claim joy as a necessary act of defiance to an authoritarian state and as a source of strength. We will tap into the sources of our joy and embody them in the world.
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How Should We Feel?- Rev. D.L. Helfer
We’re told we’re depressed, have ADHD, experience anxiety. Too often, the treatments for those ailments don’t get at the deeper spiritual issues: financial and housing insecurity, increasingly authoritarian regimes, discrimination and violence. What is the treatment for this pain of our hearts and spirits?
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