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.

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.

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.

Kathleen Peppard leads a celebration on the shadow.

This celebration asks what is the offering of the "not best" in our lives and the spiritual/religious traditions that we encounter?

Megan Parke leads a celebrating about finding and nurturing the "pool of peace" within each of us.

Karen Lohmann leads a celebration that celebrates the trees in her life and in all of our lives.

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.

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."

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.