Into The Mystic With John Dorhauer

How do you judge your success as a community of faith and who do you serve? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Reflective contemplation, taking time to step away, helps focus how God is working through us and with us. Do you take stock of what she’s called you to do? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Do you give yourself the time to relive good experiences and remember lost loved ones past? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

UCC peace cranes are prepared for another cross country trip. Will this be their last? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Where will it end? In the aftermath of the latest mass murder, how do we maintain spiritual health in the midst of such horror? By remembering the companionship of God is there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Do not live in fear, little flock. Breathe deep the breath of God. Find your spiritual awakening in the choice to let go of the fears that corrode, divide, degrade, and diminish our capacity for joy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Like a long summer day, our light grows when we share and show the love of God with the world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

What do you do to quiet your soul and spirit? We all need something that differentiates work from play and lets the whole body come alive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Can the healing that is to come from repairing the damage caused by racism and white privilege inspire us all to see with new eyes what God envisions? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Finding hope and joy in a broken world often means seeing the light through the cracks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

A connection to a child on the Mayflower, a call to walk in love and peace. John Dorhauer reflects his ties to this ancestor, one among those who established the church he’s been called to lead. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Who do you miss? Take time to embrace the joy of the experiences you once shared when they come back to you in your memories. (Listen in) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Honor the sacred by taking the time to enjoy the gifts that God gave us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

A gift in Bethlehem. Two people from very different places have a chance encounter on a crowded street –– and the child of occupation welcomes the stranger. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

What makes a land Holy? Is it the spirit of the place, that the place is made sacred by memory or something else? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

A life-changing experience can be as simple as sitting on a rock with a child and just touching hands, or accepting a kindness from a stranger-turned-friend. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Shaped by a visit to the Holy Land, seeing alliances forged across national and religious boundaries across the Middle East, the Rev. John Dorhauer reflects on the presence of people who often stand as the last hope of a peaceful coexistence in the region, and on the sacred presence that seeks to heal the human spirit and reshape human community. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Learning to pause, to stop, to breathe and to think before taking action can often be a way to preserve things that are important. In today's podcast, the Rev. John Dorhauer reflects on how a pause makes him a more effective agent for change and transformation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

What turns the sanctuary into a sacred place for you? As the Rev. John Dorhauer reminds us in today's podcast, God comes to us all in different ways, at different times, with different expressive and artistic techniques. Be ready. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

A sure signal of the coming spring for baseball fans across the country -- the call that 'pitchers and catchers have reported.' It's a sign, as the Rev John Dorhauer notes in today's podcast, that marks yet another cycle of life, a start to a new season. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message