I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.   

Rabindranath Tagore

Easter is a time of rejuvenation and resurrection. A time for growing in presence and awareness. We will look at Toltec Wisdom and the popular book " The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz who has inspired millions  on how to be our best selves, to create a new understanding, a new dream.  

Our Fellow-ship’s principles rely on the twin buttresses of principles and action: Faith, however defined,  and Works. 

We’re always happy to talk about the details and work of social justice, less so about our core beliefs  that are the foundation and support for that impetus to do right in the world. This morning let’s talk  about our various and shared approaches to the sacred, the spiritual, the ethical. Where are you on the  continuum from belief to atheism?

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Please join us for  an exploration of Afrofuturism and mainstream media. This service builds on themes  touched on in our "Black to the Future" service of February 2. 

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

Transgender elders couldn't survive the box in which they wre born. Sterling Cruz-Herr will share insights from seven trans eleders who managed to not only surviv but to thrive. Topics include the freedom to be true selves, opportunities for intergenerational connection, the power and pitfalls of being role models, and commitment to on-going evolution. The stories of how they fought their way out are as individual as they are, but e power of their eldership is universal. 

Before launching Transclue (a trans-owned coaching, training, and consulting company), Sterling Cruz-Herr served as chief engagement officer of SAGE (a national nonprofit advocating for LGBTQ+ elders), was a grant-maker at the Chicago Community Trust, and taught nonprofit management at DePaul University. Sterling is also a budding woodworker.

A songwriter of great depth and passion, Reggie Harris writes from a personal sense of mission that merges a world wise point of view with a singularly hopeful stance that life, though often challenging, is filled with possibility and hope. His songs reveal thoughts about life and love and some of the deep aspects of the human experience and cover topics from his own personal journey to world issues and history.

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July 6, July 13, July 20, July 27, August 4, August 11, August 18 and August 25

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