Creating Altars, Becoming Priests
Our sacred service, our practice here of communing with the divine, it all centers around the altar. Not only is the altar the very place where we offer ourselves to […]
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Good for what ails ya!
That’s right, summer youth conference has come at last… And it’s right around the corner: August 20 – 27 in Hillsdale, New York. Join Hugh Thornton, Liza Marcato and Nils […]
Gold that lasts the whole year through
What IS it? the parents and friends ask, that makes this camp so special? What is it that goes so deep into the children’s hearts? The most concise and truthful […]
St. John’s call to conscience
The earth is a living organism, a living breathing being. It breathes in two magnificent rhythms of the year, beginning with an out-breath at Christmas time, reaching up toward the […]
Outer Works, Inner Deeds
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, […]
Three Gifts of the Trinity
The Earth has sometimes been compared to a spaceship, a machine hurling through the black void of outer space. In this scientific vision, space is stunningly cold and inimical to […]
Ascension – the Marriage of Heaven and Earth
In a good partnership between two human beings, such as a marriage, each brings who they are as a gift to the other. What each one has, flows to the […]
a prayer
The following prayer was offered by Rev. Nora Minassian at the 24th Annual MLK Community Prayer Breakfast on April 7th, 2018 at the Phoenixville Middle School in Phoenixville, PA. Let […]
What Love Makes Possible
Think about what love makes possible: ~The great works of art ~The procreation of human beings ~The raising and education of children ~The healing of the sick ~The reversal of […]
The Meaning of the Earth
On Easter we celebrate a victory. It is the day we strive to recognize how a certain being died and then overcame death, changing death itself forever. But that little […]