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#WorkThatReconnects weekend near Stirling, August 8-10, for everyone concerned by the multiple existential threats facing our world, to help us reconnect with each other, restore our spirit, build our resilience and heal our relationship with the land. chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/sauchie-work...
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Saturday Regen, a monthly potluck lunch and peer-learning session taking inspiration from Joanna Macy’s writings on Active Hope and the Work that Reconnects artandecology.earth/saturday-reg...
06.03.2025 16:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Demo at the US Consulate (in Edinburgh) in support of Ukraine tommorow eveing, if anyone can make it along. ukrainesolidarity.scot/2025/03/02/e...
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Donald Trump sparked outrage worldwide with his shocking display of bullying at Friday's Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 145,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
03.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Elon Musk invites you to share news of what you've acheived this week. He'd love to hear *all* your stories and even if you're not a federal worker, please do contribute.
Time to throw a few sabots in the mill of fascism by spamming this email address: hr@opm.gov
#MonthofMinistry Day 22 - WISDOM
In Buddhism, wisdom doesn't just mean having a lot of knowledge or understanding. It's about an insight or about the true nature of reality, the realisation that all things are deeply interconnected - "emptiness".
More: chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/mom22
#MonthofMinistry Days 17-18 LIGHT & DARKNESS
I’m troubled by the identification of “light” with what is good, and “darkness” with wickedness and death. Don’t we need both dark and light? Is it time to begin reclaiming darkness?
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#MonthOfMinistry Day 14 - INTENTION
We are foundering in a stormy sea of competing demands to address the challenges of cultural collapse, rising fascism, genocidal greed, our very planet burning around us? Setting clear intentions is a guide on the way.
chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/mom14
#MonthOfMinistry Day 11 SURRENDER
A difficult word: how can we give up the struggle when the forces of greed, hatred, fascism (not a term I use lightly, but which seems accurate) are hell-bent on destroying all we've created to care for one another and our planet?
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#MonthOfMinistry Day 10 - CHURCH
I don't belong to a "church", but I guess our Quaker Meeting is the nearest equivalent. If you're used to going to church, it might be a little different to what you expect!
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#MonthOfMinistry Day 8 - FAITH
Imani, faith, can come like a spirit
Spirit come like walking on air.
Take a step and trust in the path and
Mother Imani meet you there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pHj...
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#MonthOfMinistry Day 9 PRESENCE
We experience being fully here, in the world, in the present moment, and remember that we're all interconnected in a deep way. As John O'Donohue puts it, we "experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder". chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/presence/
#MonthOfMinistry Day 7 - EVOLVING
XKCD reminds us that we are related to stromatolites (xkcd.com/3046).
chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/evolving/
#MonthOfMinistry Day 6 LOVE
I know you’re scared And I’m scared too
But here I am Right next to you
African-American singer/songwriter and activist Melanie DeMore reminds us to lead with love in these times of fear and chaos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dbX...
chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/love/
Saint Nicholas of Myra slapping Arius at the First Council of Nicaea
#MonthOfMinistry Day 4 INTERFAITH
The image shows St Nicholas (definitely not chanelling his cosy Santa Claus persona!) about to slap Arius at the First Council of Nicaea.
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In a wedding ceremony I often introduce the section where the couple speak their promises with some words like these: “Remember that these are not chains to bind you, but guides and reminders to help you in the adventures to come.”
03.02.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think it’s helpful to see a vow in a different way: not a loss of freedom or a promise that we might fail to live up to, but a way of setting a clear structured intention. To help focus that intention, we can do that in a ritual or cermonial seeting, with symbolic actions like exchanging rings.
03.02.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s clear that many folk are wary of vows, perhaps because they fear they are going to be somehow trapped by them, or fail in some way if they “break” the vow.
03.02.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fine of course, and there are other ways of framing this: perhaps they can make some gratitude statements, express how they love and appreciate each other, what makes their relationship meaningful and important, and what their wishes and intentions are for the future.
03.02.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What, after all, makes a wedding ceremony if it’s not the chance to tell your partner how you mean to be in relationship to them, to make a speech act that changes something about that relationship?
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#MonthOfMinistry Day 3
A couple came to me for a wedding ceremony recently, and I asked the what vows or promises they wanted to make to each other. “No vows!” they said, and I was momentarily at a loss.
Fine of course, and there are other ways of framing this: perhaps they can make some gratitude statements, express how they love and appreciate each other, what makes their relationship meaningful and important, and what their wishes and intentions are for the future.
03.02.2025 12:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What, after all, makes a wedding ceremony if it's not the chance to tell your partner how you mean to be in relationship to them, to make a speech act that changes something about that relationship?
03.02.2025 12:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Might it be better to focus on doing what emerges joyfully from our inbuilt love and compassion for our fellow humans, other beings, and the wide world around?
Photo is a wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis. © Copyright Patrick Roper and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
The word is related to the Latin servus, a slave. When we use it to describe our activity, particularly in a spiritual context, it's easy to feel we're doing things in a transactional way, in order to avoid punishment, displeasure from god or our fellow people, or to achieve praise and merit.
02.02.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#MonthOfMinistry Day 2: SERVICE
To tell the truth, I'm rather wary of the word "service". It has too many connotations of unequal relationship, situations where work isn't offered freely (military service, domestic service, ...).
#WeAreROSIM #InterfaithMinister
Likewise, great to meet you April! It's a great way of builidng our own network as well as outreach. Look forward to seeing what you have to say on the ohter prompts...
01.02.2025 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t promise to write every day, but do follow me on my website (chris-booth-ceremonies.earth), on Facebook (www.facebook.com/chris.booth....), on Instagram (www.instagram.com/plainsupper/).
#WeAreROSIM #InterfaithMinister @BringItToTheAltar @osmic_onespirit_in_connection
Among many other things, I’m a OneSpirit Interfaith Minister. February 2025 is #MonthOfMinistry, a time for us to write a bit about what that is (and it’s probably different for each OneSpirit minister). We are invited to post on social media against a series of one-word prompts, one for each day.
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Photographer and trees reflected in a square mirror, with a large house behind
#MonthOfMinistry Day 1 - ME
Hello, I’m Chris, outdoor swimmer, peace activist, interfaith celebrant, web developer, Work That Reconnects facilitator...
