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Jody Rush's Journey and Practices 11/17/2025

Jody Rush's Journey and Practices Jody Rush shares about his spiritual journey and practices in Christian mysticism. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/39062460

Samhain and the season of letting go 10/27/2025

Samhain and the season of letting go Wendy Eklund leads a celebration wherein we will come together to celebrate this season of the earth’s year and our year - the Harvest. We will look at Completing and Letting go as essential to Renewal We will consider the challenging task of releasing or reviving personal goals, projects or possessions. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38801670

A Wide Vision of Being 10/20/2025

A Wide Vision of Being 10.19.25 - Corey Passons leads a celebration continuing the theme about a wide vision, a horizon, that leads us toward the line in the CIC call, "for the sake of the whole world." /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38646180

Grief and Gratitude 10/13/2025

Grief and Gratitude Jamie Rainwood leads a celebration on resilience, focusing on the interplay between grief and gratitude. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38564230

Joy and Resilience 10/06/2025

Joy and Resilience Corey Passons leads a celebration on remembering joy, prioritizing pleasure, and experiencing resilience. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38482450

Yom Kippur and Missing the Mark 09/29/2025

Yom Kippur and Missing the Mark Jodi Kline leads a celebration to honor the holiest of the Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38396570

Reciprocity (Wisdom of the Serviceberry) 09/22/2025

Reciprocity (Wisdom of the Serviceberry) Corey Passons leads a celebration on reciprocity in the natural world with Robin Wall Kimmerer as a guide. We will explore choices of response and the power of giving something away. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38310830

Equanimity 09/15/2025

Equanimity Kathleen Peppard leads a celebration on Buddhist teachings about equanimity, a practice we can all aspire to in order to develop resilience in stressful times. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38224505

Reunion Sunday 2025 09/08/2025

Reunion Sunday 2025 Corey Passons opens the theme of the year, "Resilience, Response, and Renewal" at Reunion Sunday. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/38127995

Musical Playback Theater 05/26/2025

Musical Playback Theater May 25th - Based on ideas in playback theatre, Azadi Amaan facilitates community members sharing stories about times they felt deep gratitude and will offer piano playback based on those stories. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/36717795

The spirituality of mothering 05/12/2025

The spirituality of mothering May 11th - Corey Passons leads a celebration lifting up the wisdom of CIC mothers and explore how this wisdom could deepen our connection to self, others, the world, and our spiritual source(s). /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/36533175

CIC Easter 2025 04/21/2025

CIC Easter 2025 Corey Passons reflects on the Easter story with the help of Maria, from the "Gospel in Art by the Peasants of Solentiname." /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/36249435

Wisdom from the margins 04/07/2025

Wisdom from the margins April 6th - "Wisdom from the Margins" Corey Passons leads a celebration exploring the emerging attempt to withdraw DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) awareness from our institutions. This celebration asks the what and why of DEI, who benefits from quieting DEI, who suffers? Finally, we relate the concepts of DEI (as well as the struggle to eradicate it) back to the ancient stories of the Passover. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/36039220

Creating Resilience within Diversity 03/31/2025

Creating Resilience within Diversity Judy Olmstead leads a celebration titled: "Creating Resilience within Diversity" To resist the daunting changes that are happening in our country, people are forming alliances across broadly diverse groups. To do this, we will all need to have some real tolerance and also an ability to cope when our buttons happen to be pushed. This kind of resilience within diversity is a very important spiritual quest and the subject of our celebration. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/35942660

Zikr! 03/24/2025

Zikr! March 23rd - Guest leader Tajali Tolan and Ted Ryle offer a Sufi Zikr (Remembrance) practice for this week’s celebration. They are guides in the Sufi Ruhaniat and certified leaders of Dances of Universal Peace. Tajali is the President and Ted a director of the DUP North America Board. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/35840095

CIC 50th Celebration!!! 03/18/2025

CIC 50th Celebration!!! This audio features a blessing of past and present ministers, a story by founding minister, Jim Symons, and a reflection on CIC by Corey Passons. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/35749180

The Shadow and the "Not Best" - part III 03/03/2025

The Shadow and the "Not Best" - part III Corey Passons leads a celebration that integrates the explorations we have done with the "shadow" and the "not best" parts and looks to the wisdom of the traditions for this integration and look to compassion and empathy as the foundation beneath the practice. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/35513325

The Shadow 02/24/2025

The Shadow Kathleen Peppard leads a celebration on the shadow. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/35410220

The "Not Best" Parts 02/17/2025

The "Not Best" Parts This celebration asks what is the offering of the "not best" in our lives and the spiritual/religious traditions that we encounter? /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/35313935

Pools of Peace 01/13/2025

Pools of Peace Megan Parke leads a celebrating about finding and nurturing the "pool of peace" within each of us. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/34835640

Celebrating the Trees 12/09/2024

Celebrating the Trees Karen Lohmann leads a celebration that celebrates the trees in her life and in all of our lives. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/34347055

Hope (first Sunday of Advent 2024) 12/02/2024

Hope (first Sunday of Advent 2024) Corey Passons leads a celebration on listening to your dreams for the world, your self, and others and then asking what is next to honor and support that dream. This is another way of thinking about what is hope. On this first Sunday of Advent we welcome the ancient Pagan symbol of the Advent wreath and explore the first candle of the circle, Hope. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/34234960

Cultivating Gratitude in Hard Times 11/25/2024

Cultivating Gratitude in Hard Times On Sunday, November 24, Kathleen Peppard leads a celebration on Cultivating Gratitude During Hard Times. Difficult times may be personal or collective or both. As Francis Weller has written, “The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.” /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/34138126

"It will be hard, we know..." 11/18/2024

"It will be hard, we know..." November 17th - Corey Passons leads a celebration that explores the relationship between justice and joy. We look to insights from Dr. Kamiliah Majied who is a mental health therapist, clinical educator, and consultant on advancing equity and inclusion through contemplative practice. Her recent book is, "Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living" in which she draws on Black cultural traditions and Nichiren Buddhism to lay out a path of justice that is grounded in curiosity, courage, gratitude, and embodied joy. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/33974082

We are not our circumstances 11/11/2024

We are not our circumstances November 10th - Corey Passons leads a celebration with facilitation of a Tonglen meditation by Karen Lohmann and a dance led by Jo Curtz. We focus on connection, following the intuition of our path despite circumstances, and focusing the merit of our spiritual practice beyond ourselves. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/33883662

Day of Remembrance Origin Story 11/04/2024

Day of Remembrance Origin Story Nancy Luenn visits CIC to tell of the origins of the annual Day of Remembrance celebration in CIC. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/33778627

Noticing 10/28/2024

Noticing Corey Passons leads a celebration that lifts up the energy of noticing life and taking in the beauty of the world and this life. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/33635577

Homelessness in our region with Meg Martin 10/21/2024

Homelessness in our region with Meg Martin October 20th - The CIC Social Justice Committee hosts a celebration taking a look at the current situation for our homeless neighbors. Meg Martin, Director of Integrative Services at Interfaith Works, is the guest speaker. She shares of her story and gives a summary of the homelessness situation in our area along with services available and ways CICers can help. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/33542182

Music during altar building.... 10/07/2024

Music during altar building.... This is the music played by the CIC musicians (Penny Purkerson, Dick Hauser, Miriam Sterlin, Jo Curtz, Ryan Stephens, and Sarah Huntington) during our building of the healing altar. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/33360922

The Responsive Mind 09/30/2024

The Responsive Mind Corey Passons leads a celebration that continues to explore the theme of gratitude in reference with neuroscience and spiritual practice. /episode/index/show/229315b0-a160-40fd-a7f7-4c285e38c734/id/33262592

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