Author: Ken Burton

2025 January Stewards Minutes

Ken Burton

SEEKERS CHURCH

Final Stewards Minutes

January 12, 2025 (Zoom)

Present: Marjory Bankson, Peter Bankson, Kolya Braun-Greiner (meditation), Ken Burton,
Cynthia Dahlin, Joan Dodge, David Lloyd, Jeanne Marcus (recorder), Sandra Miller, John
Morris, Trish Nemore, Brenda Seat, Keith Seat, Deborah Sokolove (moderator), Jacqie Wallen,
Glen Yakushiji.
Absent: Judy Lantz

Housekeeping: Stewards will meet on Sunday, February 9 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm on Zoom.
Moderator: Sandra
Recorder: Trish
Meditation: Cynthia
Meditation: Kolya Braun-Greiner

\Stewards’ 2025 Calendar
A draft of the Stewards’ 2025 calendar was presented, including changes to starting and
ending times. As proposed, all meetings would begin at 4:30 p.m.…

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“Being Indigenous: A Way of Life to Heal Earth & Each Other” and “Full of the Holy Spirit” are the topics of two courses offered in the School for Christian growth Feb. 4 – Mar 11

Ken Burton

Being Indigenous: A Way of Life to Heal Earth & Each Other

Leaders: Kolya Braun-Greiner and Lucy Slater
Tuesdays: Feb. 4-March 11 – In Person with simple meal at 6:30, class 7-8:30pm

What does being indigenous mean?  How does that differ from the dominant Western culture? How is that dominant culture at odds with our own natural (indigenous) relationships with Earth? Together we’ll explore how being indigenous is consistent with the roots of our faith. How can we be in solidarity with indigenous peoples and with Earth? 

We’ll draw upon chapters of Penobscot lawyer, Sherri Mitchell’s Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change.…

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The Blessing

Ken Burton

Brenda Seat

January 12, 2025

Second Sunday in Epiphany

We have an interesting set of texts to work with this morning:

Over the past weeks of Advent and through to this Second Sunday in Epiphany, I have been noticing how many blessings have appeared in our lection readings.

We have heard the blessing of Hagar, of Mary, of Abraham and Sarah, Elizabeth’s blessing of Mary when she comes to visit; the blessing of Hannah, Mary blessing God in the Magnificat,…

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Home by Another Way

Ken Burton

Marjory Bankson

January 5, 2025

Epiphany Celebrated

Text: Matthew 2:1-12

Today we celebrate Epiphany with the story of three wise men who came with their gifts to honor a new king of the Jews. It’s a simple story, perfect for the finale of a Christmas pageant.

My favorite image of Epiphany is this carving of a fish which I bought from a street vendor in Guatemala. It shows three well-dressed women with increasingly-large halos as they approach a gold-domed church and a very bright star overhead. On the other side, common people carry baskets of food toward the same gold-domed church.…

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2025 Epiphany Liturgy: Loving in a Time of Chaos

Ken Burton

GATHERING

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION
Blessed are you
who bear the light
in unbearable times,
who testify
to its endurance
amid the unendurable,
who bear witness
to its persistence
when everything seems
in shadow
and grief.
Blessed are you
in whom
the light lives,
in whom
the brightness blazes—
your heart
a chapel,
an altar where
in the deepest night
can be seen
the fire that
shines forth in you
in unaccountable faith
in stubborn hope
in love that illumines
every broken thing
it finds.
Jan Richardson,
“Blessed Are You Who Bear the Light”
in Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons, p 47.…

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