Inspiration Blog
Growing into God
Author: Thomas Chavez, preface and editing by Julie Gorham Growing into God - Practicing the Science of Spirituality Do you truly experience and feel unity with God and others in your life? Or, do you feel disconnected and your heart knows there must be more? Christ...
Climate Café June 22 Update
Climate Café Update June 3rd, 2022 Megan Hanson and Bonnie Fackre “What would the world be like if we truly “loved all of Creation as ourselves”? Chef Lakita Butler asks us to ponder. How does living sustainably look, feel, smell and more to the point, what does it...
Look what’s Blooming! The Climate Cafe’
We are excited to share this summary of actions and decisions that Christ the Healer has taken SO FAR, in the design and development of our new outward- facing mission known as the 'Climate Café'. Christ the Healer, UCC is proposing to partner with Hillsdale Community...
No Matter What Porch Concert at Hilldale UCC
Hillsdale UCC asked Julie, a member of CtH, if she was willing to perform a porch concert at Hillsdale UCC for a community event in September. The concert would have to happen within 3 months which is a short time frame without even any defined materials. A big idea...
What if ‘True’ Christianity Is More Than We Have Ever Known?
By: Thomas Chavez, Heather Dennis & Julie Gorham “We don’t want anybody telling us what to do, what to think, or what to believe!” This was the first thing out of anyone’s mouth at the inaugural gathering of what was to become Christ the Healer, United Church of...
Do we know what is real?
Long ago, I spent a couple of weeks getting to know a brilliant professional theologian who had already written an entire shelf of books, while letting him get to know me. This was of vital importance at the time because I was proposing to marry his daughter. The one...
Science, the Bible, and Truth Part 2
We Don’t Need to Change the Story, Just Change Our Eyes as We Read. The entire point of this two-part blog post, of which this is the second half, comes down to this one statement: What we find when we each read and ponder...
Science, the Bible, and Truth Part 1
The setup - issue – so-called problem One of the most valuable insights that repeatedly arises for us in the fields of psychology, philosophy, sociology, meta-position studies of theology, and communications theory that we find being explained through recent...
Different by Design
How and why Christ the Healer UCC is different than the Church you met before. Just a week or two gone by, not long after the take over of Afghanistan, there was a radio interview with an MIT professor who had devoted his life to the study of politics behind war and...
The Original Purpose of the Christian Movement (Continued)
Part B. Why we at CtH seem so different - The Denominations By Thomas Chavez It is rushed to my attention that by talking about how all of our many denominations tend to identify the main channel of Christian understanding with their own place in an ever-widening...