Church of One Love

The Power of Community

Why do we gather here?  WE have a mission, a vision, and most of have our own spiritual practices that we are more or less dedicated to, so why do we have church? We could practice our spirituality in solitude, and/or in our every-day lives.  So why do we come together week after week?  Let’s explore the power of togetherness.

The Holiest of Places

The idea that the very holiest of places are places where healing has taken place, rather than where healing was never needed, is an extraordinary lens with which to view the world and our lives.  Thus we see all “negative” events as having purpose and meaning.  WE see ourselves as able to bring holiness into the world.

Non Violent Communication

Special Guest Janet Ellis

To See Differently

Most of us were taught to pray to change things we see as needing change.  We pray for healing, for wealth, for relief from suffering, etc.  The Course teaches the vital practice of praying to be shown how to see things differently as the most effective way to transform our world.

Love or Fear?

Perhaps the most revolutionary (and paradoxically obvious) ideas presented in the Course is the idea that all the things we label negatively: hatred, rage, jealously, disdain, dismissiveness, disgust, sarcasm, selfishness, etc…are really expressions of fear, and when viewed in that light invite our compassion instead of vengefulness.

Don’t Hurt Your Own Feelings

Special guest speaker Nancy Cox.

“The Prophet:” On Freedom

The Prophet said, “…I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.”  We are free—not when we are completely unfettered, but when we rise above the chains of our false ideas of freedom.  

”The Prophet:” On Reason & Passion

The Prophet said, “Your reason and  your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul.  If either…be broken, you can but toss and drift…or be held at a standstill.    We will use these inspired teachings to explore the Divine Masculine –personified here by “Reason” --and understand that only balance between the two can make us whole and harmonious.

”The Prophet:” on Good & Evil

When asked of Good and Evil, the prophet replied: “ Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.  For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”  We are all good, yet led to evil action by our own hungers, fears, ignorance.

”The Prophet:” On Love

“Love one another but make not a bond of love…even as [love] crowns you so shall he crucify you.  Even as he is for your growth, so is he for your pruning.”  These words about the Truth of love as not just a good thing, but for our highest good are revolutionary when we can receive and integrate this truth in to our lives.