Category: Announcements

Today was the 57th anniversary of the founding of the United Church of Christ. This morning’s service celebrated the United Church of Christ and its ministry. Summer Sundays, begun last week, continued with singing of favorite hymns requested by the congregation and a more informal worship service.

   

Earl Waters and Ron Spivack were married on June 3rd, 2014, after celebrating their 45th anniversary together on June 1st, 2014. They were married at City Hall in San Francisco. Congratulations to them both on this wonderful event.
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Saturday evening, January 12, 2012, Rev. Wells participated as a presenter at the interfaith symposium, “World Religion for the Future of Mankind,” at the Vedanta Center of St. Petersburg, Florida (www.vedantaflorida.com).

The program for this symposium is duplicated at the bottom of this post. It lists all the presenters as well as the musicians that participated in the program. The video below gives just a taste of that music, a chant which was the opening invocation.

You may also click HERE to watch video on YouTube.
Vedanta (see www.vedanta.com and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta) is a religion with its roots in the Vedas (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas), but which recognizes that all religions, through different paths, seek the same goal. The page, What Is Vedanta (vedantadc.org/what-is-vedanta), has a very clear description. The passage on that page, “Rigveda, ekam sad viprā bahudhā vadanti (“Truth is one, sages call it by var­i­ous names”)” sums it up. Also on that page are links to Sri Ramakrishna who is featured in the picture below in the center of the altar at the St. Petersburg Vedanta, as well as links to Sarada Devi, The Holy Mother, pictured on the right in the picture below, and Swami Vivekananda, pictured on the left.

The most accesible book on Vedanta is “How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali,” by Swami Prabhavananda. The book was co-written by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, whose Berlin Stories were the basis for the Broadway play, Cabaret.