… your whole body will be full of light by Roger Mock This is one of the slightly more enigmatic sayings of Jesus in the New Testament. Here is the whole passage from Luke 11.34-36: Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is single, your whole body is full of light;…
by Rev. Jim Fuller “I am willing to change.” This is a truly powerful statement if it is meant and if it is offered to our Source (to God) rather than to our egoic self. To the ego or human personality change typically means rearranging the same old living room furniture in the same old…
by John Daubney The old spiritual adage that proclaims: “If you want to keep what you receive, it’s vital to give it away”, is as important today as it has ever been. It seems the universe works that way. Ernie Klemm listened to his inner voice; was inspired by the example of others who gave…
by Rob Geyer HOME. That’s the word I’ve heard most often when folks talk about Unity Church in Albany. That it feels like HOME. A place they’ve needed and wanted and at last, finally found. A place for their spirit to feel at peace, but also a place from which to grow and expand into…
by Roger Mock The other morning, while looking through some pieces of music I had collected for possible future use, I came across an amusing little round for four voices with these lyrics: “Though I know my voice is only mediocre, I will sing to the Lord, because they say with God it’s the thought…
by Rev. Jim Fuller Dear Friends, Our friend the Buddha offered many helpful insights for developing deep spiritual wisdom; among these was the teaching of impermanence. His teachings on impermanence remind us of the temporary nature of things and conditions in the physical/phenomenal world. Things come into being. They last a while, changing as…
by Roger Mock Songwriter Bruce Cockburn, (who, you may notice, I have a habit of quoting) has a song with the chorus, “The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.” His song addresses the political realities that cause the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer and to remain mostly…
by Roger Mock It’s Palm Sunday this week for Christians, who will recall Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, the adoring crowds, the fate that would meet him within those walls, and the story of his triumph over darkness and death. At Unity this Sunday we are emphasizing that entrance into the…
by Roger Mock The feast of Easter may not seem to lend itself to planning an interfaith service like I will be doing soon. But actually it does. You can begin by recognizing that the concept of the eternality of life finds expression in many, if not all, of our oldest spiritual traditions. Not only that,…
by Rev. Jim Fuller For Christians Easter is the remembrance the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Traditional Christianity teaches that through his dying Jesus atoned for the sins of humanity; sins of the past and sins yet to come. I believe that Jesus would have been saddened by this interpretation of his final…