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9122 Sybert Dr
Ellicott City, MD 21043

Office: 3525 Ellicott Mills Drive, Suite A
Ellicott City, MD 21043
Courthouse Square Office Complex

Sermons and Stories for All Ages

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In Belonging to Everything

A Buddhist wisdom tale ends with the awareness, “you belong to everything, and everything belongs to you.” No one religion or culture or scientific insight can teach us how to experience universal belonging. But there are certain insights that each one – including mysticism, Christianity, and indigenous culture – can help provide.

Our True Selves

How can one remain true to one’s self while also searching for belonging? Through reflections offered by Buddhists, Christians, and Quakers, we examine an interfaith reaction to this question Together, we explore how people from the world’s religions connect to and honor their authentic selves.

The Streams of our Lives

This Sunday, we delve into the wisdom of the Quaker faith.  Quakers teach that, during each worship service, there is a sacred stream below them, binding them together in faith, belonging, and love. As we join together for Ingathering, we contemplate the flowing, invisible waters that unite us and all of whom we encounter.  Through acts and sentiments of radical welcome and agape love, we…

The Fruits of Karma

The Buddhist teaching of karma offers that what we experience in our fleeting life is a result of our deliberate actions and intentions, whether wholesome or unwholesome. This teaching asks us: If we have done harm, how can we purify our past actions so that we do not bear the future hardships that result? Applicable to the tenets of our own liberal religion, we discover a faith and a…

Forgiveness and Unitarian Universalism

How are the concepts of forgiveness, sin, and atonement for harming others understood in Unitarian Universalism? The principle of the inherent worthiness and dignity of every person is a core value, but how do we live out our faith and deal with the complexity of feelings we have about harm done to ourselves and others?