I've lived here at the community with Marsha, my wife, since its founding in 2003. I serve in various ways from pastoral care to landscape maintenance; from coffee brewing to bar keeping.

Author Archives: David Morrison

Read Dr. King’s letter written from the Birmingham Jail in 1963:

Click here to view and read the original letter from Stanford University

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Come and See

“This love will not be reduced to platitudes; nor will it be restricted to the religious realm. It is simultaneously personal and universal.”

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First Poem of the Year

Some scribbled lines on a winter’s day

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The Prayer of Lament

“The Bible shows us what to do with our frustration, outrage, and complicity…”

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Lectio Divina

Dorian and David discuss a common sense approach to Scripture as well as encountering the “divine whisper of the Living Word.”

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The Sacred Cycle

Dorian and David discuss the beauty of the sacred year and how we can have our lives incorporated into it.

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Holiday Edition

Dorian Mason and David Morrison discuss depression and demonstrating empathy toward those who are in suffering while everyone around them is in holiday mode.

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The Heart of the Matter

Listen to Dorian Mason and David Morrison discuss his hospital adventure during the pandemic. How do we move through the nearness of our own mortality, fear, and deep uncertainty?

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Fourth Week of Advent 2020

“…Love cannot and will never calculate losses and profits, or any pragmatic transaction. Love is far beyond commerce and rationality.   It is a magnifying lens over the heart (as Mary proclaims: ‘My heart magnifies the Lord’) through which other hearts are caught on fire when we consent to the incarnation of Christ through our own lives.”

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