The “heroic attitude is ingrained in our culture, and it shapes how most of us approach activism. But we are in the throes of a major cultural shift that is redefining how power is handled, and that calls for a new model of activism. Jody will contrast the heroic model of “defeating the bad guys” with a model drawn from her studies of heroines, one that focuses on sharing and empowering all people.

Did you know that Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, George Patton, William Butler Yates, Jack London, and J.D. Salinger and countless other well known and highly respected people belied in reincarnation? Come to zoom church this morning and find out why.

The title of this sermon is attributed to Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski and became a premise in Korzybski's General Semantics and in neuro-linguistic programming. For me, it becomes a springboard for explaining my liberal worldview and theology. Notes on the phenomenon of projection, imagination, and poetry.

Inauguration Day was a truly moving and spectacular expression of America working together! Yes, I got a little moist at points throughout the day. Now we enter into a critical time that will make or break all that we have done to date. This is also the moment we consistently get wrong which resets a cycle that will repeat until we lose it one last time or finally wake up and move into a new era for the US and the world. Be prepared to uncover a simple (not necessarily easy) missing link. NOW is the time to advance to a new era for humanity.