Speaker: Rev. Frank

More Light! Seeing Beyond the Dark Ages

As Dickens noted, the spirit of this Season of Lights is a force for healing the growing cascade of ignorance and want that besets our world. Winter has come and we are challenged to tend the light for the future of our children and our … read more.

The Joy of Dreaming

On this, the third Sunday in the Christian season of Advent, we celebrate hope and anticipation for a world in which the rule of love and justice can be birthed and served.

Something is Wanting to Be Born

We’ve survived Thanksgiving! Now we enter into the Season of Lights. Chalica, Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanza intersect with family gatherings and traditions in ways that can leave us feeling spent and tired, and detached from ourselves as well as the suffering and injustices that … read more.

Gratitude

In this Thanksgiving season, we gather together to celebrate the fruits of our labors and open to new blessings in life.

The Quick and the Dead

As autumn moves us all toward the “dead” of winter and All Hallows Eve, we bravely and playfully open ourselves to the fact of our mortality and to the possibility that, at this time in the Pagan Wheel of the Year, the threshold between the … read more.

Cosmic Consciousness?

Each year the highest bidder at Summit’s auction wins the right to choose the topic that Rev. Frank must address in a sermon. This Sunday will be that occasion. Dr. Mark Wheeler, Professor of Philosophy at SDSU, has challenged Rev. Frank to address the theory … read more.

Kickin’ It with Krishnamurti

Over the past seven months, a group of Summit members and friends have been engaged in a study of the thought of Indian philosopher and writer Jiddu Krishnamurti. Few people realize what an impact his ideas had on 20th century intelligentsia and in popular culture. … read more.

Turn, Turn, Turn

Rev. Frank Placone-Willey & DRE Mary Carter-Vail

Summer is coming to an end. The days are growing shorter. The harvest season approaches. Life cycles on. It keeps coming, bringing with it new challenges and developments in our lives as individuals and as a community. Come and … read more.