Dec 30, 2022 | Body & Mind Connections, Equity & Justice, Impromptu Events, Local Events
Written by Bonnie Fackre-Cochise, edited by Julie Gorham The pop-up at the Parkrose UCC was another successful event with increasingly steady volunteers emerging. A snowstorm on December 4th resulted in a slightly lower than average turnout, with 31 adults and four...
May 31, 2022 | Body & Mind Connections, Equity & Justice, Storytelling
Prologue Seventy thousand years ago, homo sapiens oozed out of Africa and out into Western Asia and Europe. Each small band that dribbled out existentially convinced that they were permanently and irreconcilably at war with all other humans, with animal life, and with...
Nov 30, 2021 | All, Body & Mind Connections, Storytelling
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...
Nov 6, 2021 | All, Biblical Knowledge & Wisdom, Body & Mind Connections, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
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 passages in our Bible is a stirring together...
Nov 6, 2021 | All, Biblical Knowledge & Wisdom, Body & Mind Connections, Equity & Justice, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
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...
Sep 13, 2021 | All, Body & Mind Connections, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
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...
