Tag: interfaith principles

  • Sunday Gathering 1/10 – Priorities for the New Year?

    This Sunday, January 10 10:00 a.m. Weddings in Sedona Meeting Space 30 Kayenta Ct., Suite 3 Let’s start the New Year off right, and consider what our priorities in life are, together. I find that there is so much more power when I join with someone (including my “higher power”!), than when I try to…

  • What Does It Really Mean to Forgive?

    As I mentioned in my previous post, this Advent season has me thinking a lot about what Jesus came here to teach. So we have been looking at some of what I think are his most challenging and important lessons for us: love of the stranger and love of our enemies, what we can learn…

  • Sunday Gatherings Begin Again

    We have begun holding Sunday Gatherings again! They are being held in a small meeting room at my office, Weddings In Sedona, at 10:00 a.m. Your presence would be warmly welcomed! The Sunday before Thanksgiving, we  had an intimate Gathering, looking at Thanksgiving and Gratitude.  I shared the perspectives found in the Song of Prayer,…

  • Sunday, May 11 — Mother’s Day

    Just a reminder that after two weeks at the Sedona Creative Life Center, we are back at the library this Sunday…. 9:30 a.m., Community Room at Sedona Public Library Fellowship time after the Gathering will be at Red’s Restaurant, at Sedona Rouge. Mothers Day.  Mothers everywhere are honored and blessed for the role they have…

  • The 17th Annual Season for Nonviolence begins 1/30

    Running from January 30 to April 4, A Season for Nonviolence is a 64-day call for the practice of peace and empowering us to live in a nonviolent world.  Begun by Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson 17 years ago, Arun Gandhi, in recognition of the Memorial Anniversaries of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the U.N.…

  • Easter Sunday Celebration – March 31

    Easter Sunday: The iconic Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.  Yet, it is also a powerful interfaith event for all humankind that demonstrates the strength and magnificence of God and of ourselves.  Jesus demonstrated what is available to all of us, if we will only open our eyes and see ourselves as God sees…

  • Sunday, December 16 — Shine Your Light!

    Light festivals continue at Interfaith At Sedona Interfaith Fellowship, we use Advent to honor festivals of light from several traditions, as a symbol of inviting the light to come and recognizing the divine within. This Sunday we honor Divali, meaning “row of lights,” a Hindu celebration of renewal, cleansing and purification, celebrated at the end…

  • Sunday, December 9 – Celebrating Light!

    Continuing the celebration of Light Festivals during the Advent season, Sedona Interfaith Fellowship will honor Hanukkah this Sunday. While being a minor festival, this Jewish celebration has become honored over time, a festival of lights in which menorahs are seen burning everywhere, acknowledging the miracle that occurred in 165 B.C., when Judah Maccabbee led a…

  • July 22 – SIF’s 16th Anniversary Celebration!

    Just another Sunday?  Perhaps in the greater scheme of things.  But for us, another milestone has been reached, another year has been served in our humble ministry.  16 years…. It’s hard to imagine! Yet, what do all of these years help us to see?  Surely the sea of faces has changed over the years.  And…

  • Sunday, May 13 – Mother’s Day

    A Buddhist text says, “Even as a mother at the risk of her life would watch over her own, her only child, so let us with boundless mind and good will survey the whole world.” Sunday is Mother’s Day, a day of honoring all mothers, especially our own.  We also remember how the mother-nature of…