You are the angels and shepherds of this gospel. Come and be recognized, re-membered, and renewed in spiritual community.

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 planet. Come gather with us and find comfort and strength … Continue reading More Light! Seeing Beyond the Dark Ages

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.

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 continue unabated. Come, stop, breathe and reflect. Get grounded for … Continue reading Something is Wanting to Be Born

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

In this Season of All Souls, All Saints and Day of the Dead, we will come together around a common altar dedicated to our ancestors, to remember our loved ones and the things dear to us in life that we have lost along the way. Everyone is invited to bring a picture, a token, or … Continue reading Naming All That’s Come and Gone: Our Service of Remembrance

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 realms of the living and dead becomes thinner and more … Continue reading The Quick and the Dead

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 of “Panpsychism” which, generally speaking, holds that all existence is … Continue reading Cosmic Consciousness?

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. In this Sunday’s reflection, Rev. Frank will try to draw … Continue reading Kickin’ It with Krishnamurti