9/6 - Water Communion - Religious Education Be thinking about water. The water for water communion is more than where you went and what you did this summer. It is more about what the water you are sharing (whether from your travels or from your tap) means to you. What makes this water important? Sacred? How does water tie into a sense of community or importance? How does it bind us together in communion? This service will be a time of ingathering and of coming back into another year of community with each other. After Services join us for Brown Bag Socrates Cafe at 12:15 and Yoga with Kitty Bevis at 1:30.
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8/30 - Sacred Sexuality - Toby Johnson Spiritual writer, novelist and chronicler of the Gay Men's Spirituality Movement, Toby Johnson, will speak on Human Sexuality and Pleasure as experiences of the sacred. Explaining Tantric tradition in Hinduism and Buddhism and recounting how these traditions have resurfaced, especially in gay male culture, He will offer positive ways of understanding sexual experience as integral part of the spiritual journey. After Services join us for Yoga with Kitty Bevis at 1:30.
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8/23 - Multiculturalism in the Roots of Unitarianism - Rev. Phil Schulman The multiculturalism that has emerged in the late 20th and 21st centuries is a return to the attitudes, and practices that gave birth to our church in Transylvania more than 400 years ago. This sermon is given in gratitude to the scholarship of Rev. Dr. Susan Ritchie who has uncovered for us the Jewish and Islamic influence upon the foundation of our denomination. Want to better understand what we are doing today? Listen to what we did then. After Services join us for Fourth Sunday Soup Lunch, Yoga with Kitty Bevis at 1:30 and Men's Group at 6:30.
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8/16 - Stories of Peace and Justice - Mary Grace Ketner and friends "If you want peace, work for justice" is a frequent admonition among social activists, and it is true that gaining justice, even in a single small instance, is gratifying, often a "peak experience" which inspires further efforts toward the goal of peace. Hear some favorite peace tales of some of our favorite San Antonio storytellers. After Services join us for Yoga with Kitty Bevis at 1:30.
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8/9 - The Holy Spirit Ascends from OK - Rev. Phil SchulmanJust returned from SWUUSI (summer institute), Rev. Schulman will give a first hand account of any miracles witnessed there. He is confident that the Holy Spirit will have been present and received. He will share some of the songs, stories, preaching and carrying on, that come alive at that gathering of our congregations. Bring your halleluiahs! After Services join us for Yoga with Kitty Bevis at 1:30 and Men's Group at 6:30. |
8/2 - What's Next - Peter van Dusen "What's Next?" Let's assume that Daniel Quinn's critique is valid, and that the founding premises of modern civilization and culture are rotten "all the way down." Is it possible to create a truly viable culture right here, right now, in the very midst of a dysfunctional society that appears ever closer to "coming off the rails"? What might it look like? How would it work? Who would "do" it? After Services join us for Brown Bag Socrates Cafe at 12:15 and Yoga with Kitty Bevis at 1:30.
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7/26 - Distracted from What? - Peter van Dusen"But Peter," friends ask me (naturally enough), "What does a Culture of Distraction distract us FROM?" Trying to answer this question took me back to a tetralogy of books by Daniel Quinn: "Ishmael," "The Story of B," "My Ishmael," and "Beyond Civilization." I read all of them when they came out in the 1990s, and I cannot believe I let them languish for so long before returning to reread them in their entirety this spring. It's been an electrifying experience--I have never encountered a critique of modern culture as deeply and solidly grounded as this. After Services join us for Yoga with Kitty Bevis at 1:30. |
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