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Join our sacred gathering on Sundays normally at 6 PM at the Annapolis Friends Meeting at 351 Dubois Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.
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January 6, 2013
Sixth Sunday of Via Creativa
co-creativity...seed planting...birthing....cosmogenesis...
art as meditation...imagination...discipline...possibility...play...asthetic...
Sacred Gathering at 6 PM
at
Annapolis Friends Meeting
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis
Reflection by The Rev. Dr. Wayne Schwandt Gathering Leaders:
Set-up/Put-away: Rick Stewart
Greeter/Usher: Dave Miller
Reader/Communion Assistant: John Petrosillo
Offering Invitation: Scott Bowling
Community Hour: Coordinated New Year's Dinner
-- Everybody welcome!
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CoCreating our progresssive spiritual journey in 2013 through Inspiration, Integration, Invigoration, Involvement and Indwelling and wishing you a Happy New Year to Each and All! |
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Spong Reading Group
Next meeting of the Spong Reading Group is January 5, 2013. The group reading Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World by John Shelby Spong will meet at PANERA, FESTIVAL AT RIVA at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 5. We are finishing Part X, The Synoptic Gospels. There is still time to join the group. If you need a copy of the book, contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com.
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January Covenant Dates
birthdays, anniversaries, covenant dates
January 6, 1944 Marvin Roger Woods Birthday (d. 9/11/01)
January 7 Cindy Kuzma Birthday
January 9, 1926 Lee R. Warren Birthday (d. 1/12/06)
January 8, 2001 Delores Van Steenberg death January 14 Cynthia Greene January 17, 1945 Linda J. Kahl Birthday (d. 5/6/1998) January 18, 2000 Jacob Taylor Abell Birthday January 26 Suzie Robertson Birthday
January 28 Rick Dove Birthday
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Be Our Guest ~
Never attended Evolve Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community? Join us at sacred gathering and check out our community without OPAS (Offering Plate Anxiety Syndrome). Print this coupon, bring it in, put it in the offering basket and be our guest. One guest each evening receives our welcome bread--a homemade loaf usually with cinnamon, vanilla and raisins.
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LIKE ANY OF THESE? YOU'LL LIKE EVOLVE CHESAPEAKE!
Elizabeth Schusler Fiorenza Meister Eckhart Gandhi
Rumi
Jesus of Nazareth Francis of Assisi
Hafiz Matthew Fox
Starhawk Rilke Marcus Borg John Shelby Spong Thomas Merton Adrienne Rich Martin Luther King Andrew Cohen Dalai Lama Thomas Berry
John Dominic Crossan Teilhard de Chardin Diana Butler Bass John O'Donohue
Otto Rank Andrew Harvey Parker Palmer
Julian of Norwich Tich Nhat Hanh
Otto Rank Hildegard of Bingen Howard Thurman
Joseph Grizone
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OPEN ARMS WILL WELCOME YOU
JANUARY 22, 2013
This is a discussion group that meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM, usually at the home of various Companions. We share a meal, often provided by the host, or a carry-out. Discussion, fun, and getting to know each other better have always been a part of these groups. Contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com for details. ALL are welcome! |
Become an individual member of Creation Spirituality Communities by clicking here, or sign up as a participant in the online community for free! Join our community, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community, and participate in the discussion. For more information and to sign up, go to www.CreationSpirituality.info. Join the online group, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality.
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Weekly Food & Goods Collection for Pantry
Help those in need by bringing to our Sunday gathering, an item or two for the local food bank whenever you can.
Most welcome are pantry staples (tinned meat and fish, boxed pasta products, infant formula, etc.) and personal care products such as laundry detergent, toilet paper, disposable razors, bath/shower soap, deodorant, dish soap, toothpaste, and feminine hygiene products. Collection is ongoing every Sunday.
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Guns and Babies:
What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us
Post by Anthea Butler
from Religion Dispatches December 31, 2012
 I began the week of December 10 with the horrible news that one of my former students, Brandon Woodward, had been gunned down on the streets of New York City. I ended the week with even more unbelievable news: that 20 children, six teachers, and their shooter were dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Between those deaths, another shooter killed two people at an Oregon shopping mall.
There are no words for the horror parents must have felt yesterday, especially parents in Newtown. To bury a child is the worst fate imaginable. To bury anyone you love is an awful, soul-gutting task. When that death comes at the point of a gun, the last thing grieving parents and the loved ones of the deceased need to hear are clergy members and religious pundits prattling on with a false moral equivalence that goes like this: if God and guns are allowed back in our schools, tragedies like Sandy Hook will not happen again.
Who would say such a thing? For a start, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, Fox News' Mike Huckabee, and David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The Brody File. Since yesterday's awful news, each has claimed that God's absence from our schools and the lack of concealed gun carry permits for teachers and school administrators allowed this carnage to happen. I am sure there will be others who decide to preach sermons along this line from pulpits around the country this Sunday.
Continue to read the article by clicking here.
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Have you tried this easy way to raise funds for
Evolve Chesapeake's Ministry
at no cost to you through iSearch and iGive?
Every time you search the web, you could be raising a penny for Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community. iSearchiGive.com is a search engine powered by Yahoo! and is the internet's first online shopping mall where a portion of each purchase is donated to your favorite cause. Try it today - it's free! After you click on the above link, in the upper right corner will be "CLICK HERE TO ADD ISEARCHIGIVE TO YOUR BROWSER". Make it your default search engine and earn a penny for every search. Every penny counts!
When you shop online, always go through www.iGive.com! Register Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community as your charity and shop away! As of 1-3-2013 Evolve Chesapeake has earned $1,508.89 from shopping through iGive.com and using iSearch.com. Thank you!
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More Ways to Support our Ministry:
Books for Sale at our Welcome Table
Titles by Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, and others
Note Cards for Sale
Beautiful photography by Rick Dove Bring us your used cell phones and empty ink jet and
toner cartridges.Your used cell phones and empty ink jet and toner cartridges can also help fund our ministry. These items fit nicely in the offering basket along with remembrance of time and talent you have offered to our ministries and your financial gifts. Bring them to Gathering with you.
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STRIPED CHRISTMAS
by Erine Sedicum
Striped Christmas
Made of Peppermint, Spearmint, and Cherry
Which one should it be?
Dancing like fairies
From the sky
my fingers betray my eyes
Falling, falling
until my world
is covered in stripes.
Striped Christmas
Made of Peppermint, Spearmint, and Cherry
Which one should it be?
My fingers hold
Hold on tight
For this sweet delight
Dreaming, dreaming
Fighting, fighting yourself
to not eat each twice.
Striped Christmas
Made of Peppermint, Spearmint, and Cherry
Which one should it be?
They dance in my fingers
and fly into the air
like the magic they appeared
they disappear into the sky
yet I had a taste of each
and a twinkle in my eye.
Striped Christmas
Made of Peppermint, Spearmint, and Cherry
Which one should it be?
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A Global Call to Action
Ise oluwa, koley bajey o.
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"That which Creator has made(or that which has been created) can never be destroyed."
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GAIN(Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network)
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My New Year's wish for all of us
can be summed up in the words of the 4-H Pledge:
I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living for my club*, my community, my country and my world. * (One might substitute "Evolve Chesapeake" for my club.) P.S. Please send me articles for our newsletter and/or ideas on how to make it better: to make it what you'd like it to be! ~your editor: EvolveSylvia@gmail.com |
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