I'm delighted to be joining Suquamish UCC church as their temporary bridge pastor. This virtual gathering happens on zoom; all are most welcome. 10am Pacific time zone every Sunday until they get a permanent pastor. Details can be found here https://suquamishucc.org Join on zoom = https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8711889085 Watch on FB = https://www.facebook.com/suquamishucc

Title: What's the deal with transfiguration?

In the liturgical calendar, this weekend marks the transfiguration of Jesus. This is a pivotal teaching in the Christian tradition—but few of us actually know what to make of it, and fewer still know how to apply it in our own lives. Was this transformation from human flesh into divine light unique to Jesus? Or, like caterpillars becoming butterflies, is there transfiguration in all of our lives? Let's explore this issue and hear what people from other traditions have to say about transfiguration.

Please join me or watch the reply if you'd like to share in sending out healing prayers to our beloved world. Noon Eastern time or 9am Pacific. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/healing-prayers67

Cost & Registration details are here: https://abbeyofthearts.com/calendar/queer-eye-for-godde/

When we don't fit the boundaries of the map that's been given to us, we have to find our own way forward. When we don't hear ourselves reflected in the language of the culture we inherit, we have to tell our own stories. Painful as this search for authenticity can be, it can also be a path that's rich with wisdom, creativity, and healing. And as we learn to find our own internal compass, we become more free to shine our unique divine light in the world.

Many queer people of faith know in our bones that the story of Godde we've inherited is simply not big enough to hold all the truth, beauty, and pain of this world. We know that Godde is in us, as we are in Godde, and an expansive, diverse vision of Godde belongs to all of us.

As a transgender interfaith minister, Rev Simon Ruth de Voil has spent his life learning to stand in his loving, embracing, and wildly unconventional vision of Godde. He encourages everyone—regardless of identity or sexual orientation—to seek out their own authentic and individual relationship with the Godde that speaks in their heart.

This afternoon workshop will combine short lectures with music, storytelling, and practices to help listen our way toward the unique voice of Godde in each of us. All are welcome, no matter what your gender or sexual orientation. We all have wisdom to learn here.

Invoke the ancient and mysterious Scottish Isle of Iona and share in the wisdom of Celtic Spirituality, past and present, through the beauty of storytelling, song, art, history and myth.

Travel through such wisdom as ancient nature, pre-Christian paganism and Celtic Christianity with Rev. Denise Crawn & Rev. Simon Ruth de Voil.

For registration & detailed information on this online event visit https://www.1spirit.org/live-workshops/celts

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