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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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From The Bohemian Supper Club:
A Play About Pluralism
at our May 5th Gathering Cast
Professor Freed: Wayne Schwandt
Julie, the Poet: Suzie Robertson
Harry, the Hippie: John Petrosillo
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May 5, 2013
Pluralism Sunday and Seventh Sunday of the Path of Transformation
justice...shalom...return...sustainability
healing...interference...peacemaking
relieving suffering...compassion...
Sacred Gathering at 6 PM
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Annapolis Friends Meeting
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis
Reflection by The Rev. Dr. Wayne Schwandt
Gathering Leaders
Set-up/Put-away: Rick Stewart
Greeter/Usher: Sylvia Oliva
Reader/Communion Assistant: Kathy Baker
Offering Invitation: Scott Bowling
Community Hour: Potluck Dinner (Every Welcome!)
Co-Creating a Progressive Christian Spirituality
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News from Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network:
Walking With Your God Labyrinth Workshop Saturday, May 11th 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EASTPORT MEMORIAL LABYRINTH The Rev. Dr. David G. Jones, Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator This is a FREE workshop, but space is limited and registration is required. To register, email office@stlukeseastport.org or call 410-268-5419. |
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NEVER ATTENDED EVOLVE CHESAPEAKE ?
Come to our sacred gathering and check out our community without OPAS (Offering Plate Anxiety Syndrome). Print this coupon, place it in the offering, and be our guest! One guest each evening receives our welcome bread---a tasty homemade loaf generally of cinnamon, vanilla, and raisins.
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May Covenant Dates
birthdays, anniversaries, covenant dates
May 4, 2013 Adri Eathorne & Him Hinken Marriage May 5, 2007 Adri Eathorne & Kim Hinken Holy Union
May 6, 1998 Linda J. Kahl Death May 11, 2003 Sean Patrick Riley Birthday May 11, 1960 Cynthia Brister (d. 12/31/2004) May 14, 2011 Rick Dove & Tom Good Wedding
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Chesapeake Pride Festival Presents:
Equality Dance and Gala
May 11, 2013
Let's celebrate our gains in equality and our future hopes.
Join us on May 11th from 8 pm to midnight at the Annapolis Elks Lodge for an exciting dance gala. There will be food, music and a cash bar. Also, there will be a silent auction featuring great items and services from local artists, restaurants and businesses. All proceeds will help Chesapeake Pride Festival continue our work in the Chesapeake Bay area LGBT community.
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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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ChristPath Seminar June 28-30, 2013 Pittsburg, PA, with Bruce Chilton Co-sponsored by Creation Spirituality Communities 
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FROM SCOTT BOWLING: AN AWARDED PIECE
"Just got an e-mail from my former boss acknowledging that a photo piece I did for the GNA, has been recognized by the American Society of Photo Journalists, as a 2nd place winner in the "Best of photo journalism at a live event" award for the month of March. It was also honorably mentioned in the fair and balanced category as well...." Click here to see Scott's work.
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ALL ARE WELCOME TO 
EVOLVE CHESAPEAKE BOOK GROUP
At new time: 10 - 11:30 am
We are reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and will meet on May 18th fr0m 10 - 11:30 a.m. at the Barnes and Noble Cafe, Harbor Place. This is a lively group and there is still time to join. We will continue discussing the "Pray" section in India and move into the "Love" in Indonesia. Books are readily available if you need a copy. Contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com.
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Dinner and a Show June 13, 2013  Join Evolve Chesapeake at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD for a performance of In the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award winning musical, set in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood. A place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythms from three generations of music. It's a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. What could be better than a great dinner and show in the company of your friends? Knowing that you're helping out Evolve Chesapeake with the purchase of your ticket! The show date is Thursday, June 13. Tickets are $51.00. The cost of the ticket includes the show, dinner, coffee/tea, taxes and gratuity. A cash bar is available. And speaking from experience, there isn't a bad seat in the house. Why not get a group of your friends together and join us for the show? For details, call or email Beth Lanier and let her know you're interested. 410-610-2327 EvolveBeth@gmail.com Checks may be made payable to Evolve Chesapeake. Send payment to Evolve Chesapeake, PO Box 6159, Annapolis, MD 21401. Online payments may be available in the near future for a small processing fee. |
An excerpt from:
The Poetry of Ordinary Time with Marie Howe
Marie Howe is the State Poet of New York. She was interviewed by Krista Tippet on PBS's "On Being" April 25, 2013.
From Krista Tippet: "When Marie Howe was a little girl, she would spend hours locked away in the bathtub, riveted as she read through the Lives of the Saints. She's best known for her poetry collection What the Living Do, about her brother's death at 28 from AIDS. Poetry is her exuberant and openhearted way into the words and the silences we live by. She works and plays as wisely as anyone I know with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us - and how language, again and again, has a power to save us.
"Here's Marie Howe reading her poem Hurry written about her daughter, whom she adopted when she was 52."
Hurry We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store
and the gas station and the green market and
Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,
as she runs along two or three steps behind me
her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.
Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?
To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?
Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,
Honey I'm sorry I keep saying Hurry -
you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.
And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking
back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says,
hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.
For more of the interview, click here: On Being. Then find last week's program with the above title and click on it. You'll be able to listen to the program or access the transcript. |
WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY GROUP MEETS MAY 7TH
We are meeting at 7 pm every other Tuesday at Kathy Baker's home in Edgewater. Our focus is on ways of connecting to the Divine. Each meeting, several topics about spirituality and women are discussed, and a different form of meditation is shared in order to learn about it and try it out.
If you would like to join the group, please email Kathy Baker at
k3b@comcast.net.
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Spin the Wheel
by Erine Sedicum
I have come to the onclusion that life is like a spinning wheel. After the drama is over or in progress, you come to realize there are times when someone else spins the wheel. This is why I love this picture because it seems we are more out of control than in control. Life can be an adventure...Am I ready for the next spin? Spin the Wheel...Spin the Wheel...and learn something new or learn more about yourself.
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FROM THE HENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY
an excerpt from
Bread for the Journey by Henri J. M. Nouwen
April 29, 2013
Making Our Lives Available to Others "One of the arguments we often use for not writing is this: 'I have nothing original to say. Whatever I might say, someone else has already said it, and better than I will ever be able to.' This, however, is not a good argument for not writing. Each human person is unique and original, and nobody has lived what we have lived. Furthermore, what we have lived, we have lived not just for ourselves but for others as well. Writing can be a very creative and invigorating way to make our lives available to ourselves and to others. We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them."
Thanks to Suzie Robertson for sending this! |
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If you answered "no" to one or both of those questions, you are missing out on donations to help fund our ministry. Talk with Pastor Wayne if you need technical assistance understanding how to do these passive donation options for YOUR community.
Other Ways to Support our Ministry:
Books for sale at our Welcome Table
Titles by Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, etc.
Note cards for sale with beautiful photography by Rick Dove.
Also, 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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 Food Bank Collection Help those in need by bringing to our Sunday gathering, an item or two for the local food bank when 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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From the Editor:
I invite you to help make this newsletter a vehicle for sharing--an article that you particularly like, some news you feel is important for us to be aware of, a poem you discovered and fell in love with, a song or piece of music that speaks to you, a book review, a photo you'd like to share, a link to a short video, etc. Send it to EvolveSylvia@gmail.com. Thanks! |
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