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June-3-2018: When Questions are the Answer
Rev. Debra Thorne Have you got a question that you’d like Rev. Debra to answer? That was the invitation to the community. The questions flowed in—from the theological and eschatological to the environmental and historical. Rev. Debra will attempt to answer them all.
May-27-2018: Labyrinth Walks: A Contemplative Practice for Wholeness
Rev. Debra Thorne and Special Guest: Diana Ng Walking the labyrinth has been a spiritual practice since the 11th century and rediscovered in the last fifty years as part of the reclaiming of contemplative practices both in and outside Catholic and Protestant communities. Diana Ng, member of South Fraser Unitarians, built her first 42 foot […]
May-20-2018: What about me? Being a man in the era of ‘Me Too!’
Phil Campbell and Theo Boere, Executive Director and Founder of Men’s Resource Center Men have done some truly awful things to women. We should all be ashamed—shouldn’t we? How can we men respond to this in a meaningful way and still hold on to our maleness with pride? Should we as men hold to the […]
May-13-2018: Healing in the era of ‘Me Too!’
Rev. Debra Thorne It was like a tidal wave that swept the first world. So much good healing has come from the early days of the ‘Me Too!’ movement. With unchallenged power this wave uprooted systems of decayed power, and unfortunately a few innocent lives as well. In the aftermath of the first wave there […]
May-6-2018: Transforming Perspective
Rev. Debra Thorne How do we live together with completely different world views? Members of Beacon have been educating themselves in the history of indigenous people and realizing that their way of seeing and being in the world is so very different than that of the settler. For example there is no word for wilderness […]