Feb 21, 2022 | Biblical Knowledge & Wisdom, Local Events, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
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...
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...
Jul 13, 2021 | Body & Mind Connections, Equity & Justice, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
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...
Jul 11, 2021 | Body & Mind Connections, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
Part A. Why we at CtH seem so different By Thomas Chavez Over the course of twenty centuries, Christian teaching, for the most part, no matter which specific church or denomination you talk about, has sought to maintain a consistent image. Wanting 5to present a...
