Heaven is a Garden: Flower Communion – Rev Chris Buice and Catherine Farmer Loya This year our annual flower communion falls on Easter Sunday. Historian Gary Wills wrote, “The desert culture of Islam sees heaven as a garden perpetually rinsed with purifying water.” The inner courtyard of many Muslim palaces features pools of water, a […]
Led by the Rev. Gordon Gibson and the Rev. Laura Bogle It is reported that on the last full day of his life Jesus celebrated companionship and remembrance, an act of faith and resistance in the shadow of the Roman Empire. In this service we will enact our own remembrance, faith, and resistance in the […]
We associate secret agents with lies, dishonesty and subterfuge. Even so there is at least one secret agent who is better known for her spirituality. Noor Inayat Khan was a Sufi Muslim mystic who wrote a book of children’s stories based on stories of the Buddha in the Jataka Tales. When the Nazis invaded France […]