Topic: Compassion

Generosity of Spirit

With Worship Associate Nathan Makdad, Cantor Rachel Walters Stein, and musicians David Dodd on piano and the Larking About Choir. Generosity of Spirit is to act with kindness, to be open and willing to share with others without any expectation of receiving something back in return. It means to celebrate the success and efforts of … Continue reading Generosity of Spirit

Conflagration: The Prospect of a Second American Civil War

Protests about institutionalized racism this summer have been compared to those of 1968. Dr. Buehrens heard his call to ministry then. As an historian, he would also compare them to the polarization in America over race going back to the 1850s, when both Unitarian minister Theodore Parker and Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass were calling for … Continue reading Conflagration: The Prospect of a Second American Civil War

enough.

In a society which so often focus on the need for more, for better, for the push to be extraordinary and to have and to experience extraordinary things, perhaps the path toward compassion for ourselves and others might be found in focusing instead on what is enough. We will send out the link to the viewing … Continue reading enough.