On Sunday an exploration of the significance of the oceans for all life on earth and what responsible care calls us all to do to care for and protect this beautiful and precious part of our planet. The Rev. Dr. Mark Davies is the Oklahoma State Humanities Scholar for the Smithsonian Institute Museum on Main … Continue reading Our First Breath is from the Ocean
Dr. Tata returns to Red River with an oddly coherent message from the apocalyptic Book of Revelation. Turns out John’s Revelation isn’t a fanatical religious rant. Even in the first century, we were warned against the idolatries of empire, and the warning is even more timely today vis à vis the climate crisis. The hegemony … Continue reading And the First Angel Sounded the Trumpet
There are three levels of the Bible. Level one is all lies, level two is half truth and level three is all truth? This talk will open your spiritual mind to reason and reasoning of the Bible. What level are your at? James was born in Fort Apache, Bronx, NY. Raised Catholic until the age … Continue reading Bible: Truth or Fable?
Our asylum laws were developed to comply with our obligations to provide refuge to persecuted people. That system is being undermined with unprecedented attacks. What is going on and what should we do? Since 2012 Bill Holston has been the Executive Director of Human Rights Initiative of North Texas. Prior to that he practiced law … Continue reading Undermining Hope, Asylum in 2019
A 16-year-old named Greta Thunberg just spent two weeks crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat to keep from contributing to CO2 emissions by flying to New York. In the meantime, the U.S. is lowering fuel standards and removing limits on methane emissions by oil and gas companies. The Amazon is burning and Brazil refuses help … Continue reading World on Fire
On Sunday an exploration of what realistic hope might look like. In the midst of our current chal- lenges and how we might find joy together as we work together to heal our communities and trans- form the world.
A different way to be together. We do this every three or four years! The All Church Work Sunday: No Adult Forum, No Morning Assembly, No Conversations & Calories (but snacks for those who stay) Labor Day week-end seems, to the worship team, the perfect time for us to shift gears and give a gift … Continue reading Labors of Love – The All-Church Work Sunday (really!)
Our annual water communion assembly this year will focus on the future of water and conclude with the dedication of our monarch waystation, that will involve some of the water everyone brings on Sunday. Please bring a small(ish) container of water, to assure we have enough for the dedication.
The Earth Community – an exploration of what life might be like if we thought of ourselves as earthlings first. Rev. Dr. Mark Y. A. Davies is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics, Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility, and Executive Director of the Leadership. Education, and … Continue reading The Earth Community
In his 1863 booklet Utilitarianism, British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that he would “rather be Socrates unsatisfied than a pig satisfied.” What would you rather be, and why? We will look at his reasoning on this and explore other thought experiments in values. William Lloyd Fridley is a professor of Education at Southeastern Oklahoma … Continue reading J.S. Mill’s Satisfied Pig: Thought Experiments in Values
