Category: Consciousness
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The Alpha and the Omega: Why Endings Are as Important as Beginnings
Endings matter because the final moments of a group’s togetherness can substantially influence the entire experience. The ending can modify the experience, make it better or worse, embed it deeply in memory or, absent a strong close, can dilute an experience into something that happened, but mattered little. Tim McNamara – https://sweetunrest.com/ending-well-treating-classes-like-gatherings-part-three/ One of the…
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Employment, Engagement, and Empowerment: The Way of Enough
When I entered seminary back in 2009, it was because, after working on a very disappointing Diversity Recruiting project with a certain company, I became convinced that a seminary degree would be just what I needed to “evangelize” the good news of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in organizations. After all, at their best, I…
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Don’t Lose the Vision When You’re in the Valley
Many times in my life, I’ve come to the top of a mountain, metaphorically speaking, only to realize that my journey is leading me to yet another mountain. For years, I’ve tried to articulate this path in a way that is both descriptive and prescriptive for those who may also find themselves on a precipice…
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Diversity and Subcultures: Lessons from the Bronies
Recently, when speaking at a TEDx MileHigh Rethink Event, I shared a humbling experience I had with the Brony subculture back in 2013 that helped expand my awareness of cultural formation and how gathering or collectivizing around a certain set of values helps people transcend divides. Although “corporate culture” has made its way into the…
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Take This Life w/ Lyrics
This song is essentially a prayer and was written to express a desire to live as fully into the light of the Creator’s Love as I can. The youth at the church I used to serve challenged me to perform it in front of our congregation which has a predominantly white membership after hearing me…
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Bearers of the Way
In many ways, this was one of the most taxing messages that I’ve delivered. Working on it compelled me to stare into a the pain of proselytizing and missionary activity around the world where people were robbed of their lands and culture and often left with nothing more than the very Bible that was used…
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The Case for Living Loveward (Full Sermon)
There’s something about the illusion of the better and easier and more predictable yesterday that often keeps us from going toward the unpredictable but more liberating future that awaits us just on the other side of doing something different. And it is toward this that I believe is the call of living Loveward.
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Living Loveward Ch. 5 – Love Never Fails
In reflecting on Abraham’s potential sacrifice of Isaac, Søren Kierkegaard said, “To love God without faith is to consider oneself. But, to love God with faith is to consider God.” As I walked and contemplated how I interpreted that statement in light of everything else he said, I felt inspired to talk about how—despite appearances…
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Living Loveward Ch. 4 – Love is Wild
Love is not safe or predictable. In truth, it is mysterious. And it is Wild. In this video, I try to communicate the awesomeness of this awareness. Don’t freak out. But True Love is ferocious in ways that we find it hard to comprehend. Welcome to the wildness of Love.
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Loving Loveward Ch. 3 – Love is a Mystery
Why do you love anyone? I bet you have a lot of “reasons” and most of us want to know the “reasons” people love us. And yet, most of us want “unconditional love “ which is essentially love for no reason. In this video, I invite listeners to consider the possibility that the Greatest access…
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