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Ellicott City, MD 21043

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Ellicott City, MD 21043
Courthouse Square Office Complex

Sermons

Facets of Belonging

September’s worship theme has been “Building Belonging”, and we’ve reached the final Sunday of the month. As a sendoff to this theme I will consider various and sundry related topics. Indeed, it shall be a bit of a hodgepodge.

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…