To Think Within or Without the Box
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Kay is a worship associate who has helped with summer services and participated in other groups and activities since joining in 2018 after moving from Chicago. She now finds herself returning to her former life as a fiber artist after 20 years of teaching at DePaul University on pre-conquest Mesoamerican religions, mythology, comparative ethics, and religious theory. She is most concerned with combating climate change; promoting nature’s grand diversity; and finding ways to help people open up to and support the grand, natural diversity of the human world. She lives with her husband Ned who chooses to go his own way church-wise.
Please join us in the sanctuary face to face, or connect with us online for our live-streaming at 10 a.m. on Sundays concorduu.org/live.
When we first think of belonging, we might conjure up fuzzy, wonderful feelings of supportive, close relationships. I know I did; but is it that simple? Does belonging always mean a group of people in a close community, living harmoniously? Could it also mean an activity that fosters belonging, or maybe belonging could be closely … Continue reading Belonging: What Is It, Anyway?
Online Only Believing one’s ethnic, cultural, religious, class, racial and/or physically-mentally fit group is superior to all others is something many of us are conditioned to do. In fact, we sometimes enjoy it. It makes us feel safe to fit into cultural norms that most people in our society agree upon. We feel this superiority … Continue reading Facing Others, Facing Ourselves
The Holidays are saturated with traditions. Many of us fondly remember the annual holiday rituals we had as kids. Their yearly reappearance could give us a feeling of stability and belonging, maybe even a sense of generational identity. Any disruption of “what we always did” could quickly lead to loud protests. Those traditions enhanced our … Continue reading What We Always Did…