Triggering environments are not going away. Our world has gotten more connected. We can’t stay in our divided little groups, so we no longer have the luxury of living in homogeneous bubbles. It’s time to build our relational skills so we can participate in changing the world.

 

Each Sunday we practice one of the ancient contemplative practices together. We have made audio from these Sunday meditations available so you can practice on your own.

Our brains evolved to keep us safe in hunter-gatherer bands on the Serengeti. Features of a brain designed for safety there, don’t necessarily work well for us here. Unconscious bias is one of those “safety” features. But the spiritual journey invites us to access a deeper part of ourselves, to broaden our perceptions beyond those built-in biases. Do the spiritual practices. Participate in changing the world.

 

Each Sunday we practice one of the ancient contemplative practices together. We have made audio from these Sunday meditations available so you can practice on your own.

Our brains evolved to trick us into automatic choices for survival. Those choices don’t fit very well into our modern context.

We gain freedom of choice through our spiritual practices.

 

Each Sunday we practice one of the ancient contemplative practices together. We have made audio from these Sunday meditations available so you can practice on your own.

 

If we follow Jesus, serving those hurt by oppressive systems is our work.

But Jesus also taught us to change the systems that hurt people in the first place.

If we want to change the world, the job before us is to rebalance our win-lose systems.

 

 

Meditation is an essential practice on the spiritual journey. But it challenges all our established internal habits. That means to gain the benefits of the practice, we need to develop some complementary skills — staying when we want to leave — seeing when we want to avoid — settling in for a long journey with both our light and dark sides.