November 6TH 2022: Life Finds a Way

This Week we are Welcoming a Guest speaker Nic da Silva.

Nic da Silva is a non-binary psychotherapy and spiritual care student at Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto. Nic is a former Roman Catholic and spent one year in a Catholic seminary. They are now a member of the Unitarian Universalist community and identify as post-Christian and spiritually fluid. Some of their main interests of work are in religious trauma, transformative joy, internal family systems therapy, and the spirituality of hip-hop.

1st Reading: This is a meditation by Howard Thurman, a civil rights leader and humanist theologian

who was a mentor to Dr. King and who travelled to India and met with and befriended

Mahatma Gandhi.

2nd Reading: About the Author: This is by Denis Edwards, a contemporary academic and author on eco-spirituality.