The Spiritual Practices Adult RE workshop has wrapped until April. Thanks to all who participated – we learned a lot together!
Check out the RE new page to see our book recommendations for your personal lectionary and some of our art journaling commitments for practice.
We recently completed Part 1 of the Adult RE Spiritual Practices workshop and it was a true delight!
In our time together, we discussed and defined spiritual practice, explored how to pray (even if the G-word makes you itchy), experienced various forms of meditation, mindful walking and eating, tried our hand at the ancient practice of devotional reading called lectio divina, and practiced art journaling our commitments to daily-ish spiritual practice that we will work on individually until we come together for Part 2 of this series in April.
Several of you have expressed interest in attending this workshop during the day so that you don’t have to drive at night. If you would like to see a round of the Spiritual Practices workshop offered on Mondays at 9:30 AM, email me (dre@uucorvallis.org). If enough people are interested, we’ll launch a day-time workshop in February.
As a gift from our Spiritual Practices graduates to the wider Fellowship, we offer this list of book recommendations that you might choose to add to your own personal lectionary. If you don’t have a personal lectionary, or don’t even know what that means, you should consider joining the next round of the Spiritual Practices workshop!
Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman recommended by Sherri Argyres
Love Poems from God by Ana Huang, Eden O’Neill, Ghassan Zeineddine recommended by Sherri Argyres
Heart to Heart by the Dalai Lama and Patrick McDonnell recommended by Bonnie Morihara
Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Anita Barrows & Macy recommended by Rebecca Bedell
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl recommended by Heather Thomas
Untamed by Glennon Doyle recommended by Heather Thomas
Beauty by John O’donohue recommended by Jay Coffman
A Religion of One’s Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World by Thomas Moore recommended by Skyla King-Christison
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor recommended by Skyla King-Christison
The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices by Casper ter Kuile recommended by Diane Weisner
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown recommended by Anya Ballinger
Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land by Rabbi Shefa Gold recommended by Melinda Sayavedra
