Gathering Leaders  

set-up/put-away: Beth Lanier   

greeter/usher: Dave Miller    

reader/communion assistant: Adri Eathorne
offering invitation: Kim Hinken

   community hour hosts: Chuck Riley & Wayne Schwandt            

     Co-creating a progressive Christian Spirituality  

  Further details will soon be forthcoming.
The actual date of our founding was September 13, 1998.

 

Witnessed by Erine Sedicum after work on Monday,
August 5, 2013 around 6:15pm:

I saw a party            

                     by Christina Borgoyn

to every tune it ever sang,

the bird remembers the words

it flutters its wings, a quick heartbeat

and with the morning preying on

young, fresh- supple bones,

it closes its beak and

gently lifts itself

off into the sky.

 

Whereas the City of Annapolis is proud to be the first city in the region to offer domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples prior to legalization of marriage in Maryland; and whereas Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride is defined as a positive stance against discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation while promoting self-affirmation, dignity and equal rights; and whereas the Chesapeake Pride Festival is the only LGBT Pride Festival and Event to be exclusively organized and held in Anne Arundel County, shining a spotlight on the diversity and richness of our community; and whereas communities around the County celebrate LGBT Pride with rallies, parades, commemorations, community days, concerts, and large festivals, showcasing the positive impact LGBT individuals have on their community; and whereas we are reminded that each generation has brought us closer to true equality, and recent achievements confirm that we should never stop striving for its true equality for everyone; and whereas individually and collectively members of Annapolis's LGBT Community contribute greatly to our neighborhoods, economic vitality, arts and culture, and the social fabric of our city, county, state and country; and whereas Annapolis urges all citizens to join the fight against prejudice and discrimination anywhere it may exist, and to respect the rights of all people:  now therefore, I, Joshua J. Cohen, Mayor of the same Annapolis, Maryland, do hereby proclaim August the Third, 2013 to be Chesapeake Pride Day in the City of Annapolis and call upon all the citizens thereof to redouble their appreciation for service to one's community and fellow-man as the highest calling one can heed.  Given under my hand and the great seal of the City of Annapolis this Third Day of August, 2013.
(The above was transcribed from a U-tube video on Facebook.)

             birthday cake
                      by Christina Borgoyne

I lay myself in the red velvet cake

stars lit, how do I find my way?

wax drips from the cosmic lanterns

above

I am lost in the universe

she breathes for me-

of hydrogen and oxygen

imploding miracles

right where our fingertips left off

The Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945 around the time of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.  It is filled with sacred, fierce outrage and radicalism, to wake up the world to the terrific danger it is in and call us to sacred action to save our planet. We need to connect with and share the experience of the Cosmic Christ.  Jesus, the supreme sacred activist of history, birthed the Divine in himself and showed us how to do it in ourselves.
In the Gospel of Thomas there are 114 sayings, and they are directly from the heart of the Divine. What holds us back from getting this message is the level of our consciousness--and we have so little time!  These sayings are a map for the transfiguring of the human being.  Below are the beginnings of some of the sayings followed by what I remember of Andrew Harvey's comments:
1. "Let him who seeks not cease seeking until he finds
....."
The Divine is living in you as you.  Wake up to your Divine   nature and to one another's Divine nature.  Wake up to the nightmare of what is going on and your responsibility to do something about it.  This is "passionate, universal mysticism."
2. "If your rules say to you....you have missed everything....The Kingdom is inside you and outside you....."
We are turned into a "Revolutionary of Love" as Jesus was.  "STOP PLAYING SMALL!" What are we doing while the world is burning!? We are passive, comatose, idiotic!
3. "I am the Light that is above them all, I am the All.....the All came from me and the All attain to me."
4. "She who is near to me is near to the fire."
This is the most beautiful and most difficult life.
5. "I have cast fire upon the world and here I am....."
Jesus did not believe he was Son of God.
6. "I will destroy this house....."
This Establishment, this Machine, this System!
7. "Jesus saw some babies nursing....."

We need warrior-lovers now, divinized people who are tremendously evolved.  When you make the two one, you work with your heart, your spiritual heart. Everything is holy!  It is time to throw ourselves into holy transformation, passionately!

* This was a very intense and passionate presentation by Dr. Harvey.  I hope that my sketchy recollections are not too inadequate or inaccurate.  -Sylvia

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