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What if the world was filled with ministers–people who cared about the well-being and wholeness of others? To minister is to attend to the needs of others and there are many great people who have committed their lives to that mission but not everyone is able to dedicate themselves to becoming a professional minister. Some choose to help others as a lay minister or non-professional caregiver. This text serves as a guide for training and support for people who want to become lay ministers or group facilitators of any spiritual tradition.

We are welcoming congregations. We say so on our church buildings, on our banners, in our sermons, and on our websites but does that message really ring true for visitors and newcomers to our faith and our worship services? Sometimes the building and the things and people inside that building can send a different message. What happens to a guest after they step inside is as important to the practice of hospitality as is the initial welcome. To be truly welcoming to people of all identities, backgrounds, and characteristics, a guest is not asked to conform to standardizations but is invited ...

The practice of meditation is often connected to a specific spiritual tradition but all religions use some form of meditative practice. With over 100 different exercises and an expansive exploration of the purposes and uses of meditation to expand the self, this book explores the practice of meditation for people of any tradition including those with no tradition. Through a relationship with the earth, our place in the world, and our own bodies everyone can find a connection to all and seek wholeness.

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book One defines the fundamentals of musical theory from music reading to chord analysis.

Emergent Spirituality is a practical application of the theology and philosophy outlined in its predecessor book entitled “The Emergence of God.” After a review of the basic principles and premises of emergent spirituality this work introduces personal and group rituals, services, and practices that help individuals and communities connect to the rhythms of the universe and to each other.

Happiness. It is something we all say we want but so few seem to actually possess it. Why do some people seem to be so happy all the time while others struggle to find joy in their lives? Answers to these questions have come mainly from traditional psychological and religious understandings. The Sacred Quest looks at happiness from a universalist perspective. It demonstrates that happiness is bound together with our spirituality but a specific path is not as important as is the dedication to a life of growth, connection, and expression.

This book is a second collection of sermons delivered at the First Church in Barre, Universalist Church in Barre, Vermont between the years of 2024 and 2025. The Universalist religious movement is a modern non-creedal religion that supports and includes people of all religions and beliefs.

Ten easy to produce and perform plays designed to be used as part of intergenerational worship services which bring to life important lessons about being together in community.

A collection of original prayers, chants, litanies, mantras, and affirmations that can be helpful and useful to people of any kind of personal or group spiritual practice.

Turn off the virtual and return to the actual. In a world of virtual reality, virtual friends, and digital anonymity, there are still those who enjoy playing real games with real people. No matter how complex a video game may be there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction with friends around a table full of fun and playful game elements. And there is nothing more iconic to tabletop games than dice: plain dice, colorful dice, tiny dice with dots, polyhedral dice, lawn dice, and many other shapes and types of dice are an important part of the generation of chance elements that make ...

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book Four applies the tools developed in all three previous books and uses them to make a complete analysis of music from different historical periods as well as from contemporary music and music from other cultures.

The Tao Te Ching, or the Book of the Way of Virtue is an ancient and venerable Chinese text that may date back as far as the 4th century BC. Its simple yet profound words have been an inspiration to countless generations of artists, writers and thinkers; its ideas are so basic yet so deep that they can be related to most any activity or pursuit. Yet, its original audience was to the emperors of that ancient time and not the general populace. I, too, was inspired by the Tao Te Ching and wrote a set of aphorisms that would relate to our own postmodern condition and time. These words reflect ...

In our lives we are often too quick to look for lines that divide the “this” from the “that” but the world we live in does not recognize such clear distinctions. Life and nature exist within a spectrum of complexity rather than in carefully labeled boxes. Science, nature, and spirituality are not pursuits of understanding with contrasting viewpoints and objectives. Each looks at a different aspect of the spectrum of complexity that is the universe. That which we call the divine, or God, is not separate from these things but is both the source and the goal of the continuous evolution...

Stagehands argue about their relationship between acts, a mountain climber struggles to rise above the summit of public opinion, the man once sent to kill a princess finds her working at a diner, retired superheroes lament their new life, and a villain threatens to blow up the world if he can get the Henchman Union to end contract negotiations. These are some of the situations found in this second collection of ten-minute plays. Each one is designed to be produced with just a few actors, few props, and within a single setting. They are easy to perform or fun to just read.

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book Three develops an understanding of the parameters of music and how to use them in a detailed analysis of music.

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book Two expands upon the concepts learned in Book One leading to the creation of traditional four part writing.

Is it possible to be ethical without being religious? For a very long time, moral training was always a part of religious teaching. The idea was that the spiritual life meant not only knowing the divine but living out its principles. Soon moral and religious teaching became intertwined to the point that people believed a lack of spiritual training also meant a lack of moral development. But, ethics does not have to be relegated to the exclusive domain of the church, mosque, or synagogue. We can learn to live well together simply because we all want to coexist in a peaceful and kind world. ...

A selection of magical stories to entertain your children whilst you are waiting at the airport and are flying to your holiday.

This book is a collection of sermons delivered by at the First Church in Barre, Universalist Church in Barre, Vermont between the years of 2023 and 2024. The Barre Church is associated with the Unitarian Universalist movement which is a modern non-creedal religion that supports and includes people of all religions and beliefs–even if that includes no belief.

The church was once the place where great art was commissioned, performed, and displayed but Protestant churches grew out of the Reformation. The Protestants wanted simple services with little embellishment and that was the tradition the Puritans brought to America. That tradition influenced church liturgy well into the twentieth century but the times are changing. While reason may have been the driving force in the formation of early American churches, many people of this age desire a spirituality that is embodied. They want to express themselves emotionally as well as intellectually. They...