The Buddhist/Christian InterSpiritual Community Celebrates Pluralism
As we gather together from differing faith perspectives (Buddhist, Christian, and various others), we remain rooted in our own traditions without the compulsion to force common ground.
Yet, without the need to defend out own turf, we are profoundly challenged by one another's wisdom, delighting in mutual enhancement. Maybe more importantly, we always move beyond words as we share sacred silence.
Groups
In October of 1995, The Buddhist Christian InterSpiritual Service was founded by Rev. Dr. Toni Cook with the support of Sister Mary Luke Tobin and Professor Jose Cabezon. The community has been enriched by many spiritual teachers from various backgrounds through the years.
The Buddhist Christian InterSpiritual Community fosters exploration and understanding of diverse spiritual paths.
Together we cultivate the Sacred within ourselves and the world around us.
February 2011
MEDITATION, LECTURES, CONVERSATIONS
Childcare provided for the Sunday Service
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For a Flyer of February events click here.
5pm Sunday Services & Events
Wednesday, February 1st |
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| 6:30pm | Feeding the Homeless 6:30pm: we will make sandwiches and assemble lunches at 6:30pm. It takes about 20 minutes and the lunches will be handed out the next day in Civic Center Park. It is too easy of a statement to say we are feeding the homeless. We are serving lunch to 50 people who are all someone’s brother, someone’s mother, someone’s daughter. We are showing love to someone who does not experience much love. |
Sunday, February 5th |
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Speaker: Dr. Bob Mischke Dr. Bob Mischke retired early from the practice of medicine in order to study and practice spiritual teachings from both East and West. Dr. Bob has experience with Centering Prayer, Vipassana and likes to combine the wisdom teachings of Jesus and Buddha as well as those of current teachers like Eckhart Tolle, Thomas Keating and Adyashanti |
Wednesday, February 8th |
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| 6:30pm | Feeding the Homeless 6:30pm: we will make sandwiches and assemble lunches at 6:30pm. It takes about 20 minutes and the lunches will be handed out the next day in Civic Center Park. It is too easy of a statement to say we are feeding the homeless. We are serving lunch to 50 people who are all someone’s brother, someone’s mother, someone’s daughter. We are showing love to someone who does not experience much love. |
Sunday, February 12th |
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| 5:00pm |
Speaker: Rabbi Brian Field Brian Field was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. In 2004 he moved to Denver to become the rabbi of Judaism Your Way, an 8-year-old Denver-based Jewish outreach organization. Judaism Your Way stands at Judaism’s threshold, being accessible, inclusive, and responsive. Rabbi Field reminds us how we can connect to the Divinity within. |
Wednesday, February 15th |
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| 6:30pm | Feeding the Homeless 6:30pm: we will make sandwiches and assemble lunches at 6:30pm. It takes about 20 minutes and the lunches will be handed out the next day in Civic Center Park. It is too easy of a statement to say we are feeding the homeless. We are serving lunch to 50 people who are all someone’s brother, someone’s mother, someone’s daughter. We are showing love to someone who does not experience much love. |
Sunday, February 19th |
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| 5:00pm |
Speaker: Rev. Jessie Nelson Lent is the Christian season that prepares us for the death and resurrection of Jesus, but the 40 days can be used for many types of spiritual growth and exploration. What commitments can we make to ourselves for these 40 days that will make Lent an interspiritual time of enlightenment? |
Wednesday, February 22nd |
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| 6:30pm | Feeding the Homeless 6:30pm: we will make sandwiches and assemble lunches at 6:30pm. It takes about 20 minutes and the lunches will be handed out the next day in Civic Center Park. It is too easy of a statement to say we are feeding the homeless. We are serving lunch to 50 people who are all someone’s brother, someone’s mother, someone’s daughter. We are showing love to someone who does not experience much love. |
Sunday, February 26th |
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| 5:00pm |
Speaker: David Young David Atekpatzin Young is
an Apache Curandero (traditional healer) and spiritual
teacher of the Iglesia de Aztlan, a Native People’s Community
Church. He is the founder and |
Wednesday, February 29th |
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| 6:30pm | Feeding the Homeless 6:30pm: we will make sandwiches and assemble lunches at 6:30pm. It takes about 20 minutes and the lunches will be handed out the next day in Civic Center Park. It is too easy of a statement to say we are feeding the homeless. We are serving lunch to 50 people who are all someone’s brother, someone’s mother, someone’s daughter. We are showing love to someone who does not experience much love. |
Buddhist
Christian Interspiritual Service: "The Parallel Teachings of Jesus and Buddha"
Buddhist
Christian Interspiritual Service: "Faith: What It’s Not and What It Might Be"
Buddhist
Christian Interspiritual Service: "40 Days of Contemplation"
Buddhist
Christian Interspiritual Service: "A Pathway to the Divin"Parking for BCIC
Parking is available in the following locations:
• St. Paul’s Lot (adjacent to west side of church)
• Case Management Lot - across alley west of the church along
16th (alley access)
• Montview Tower Lot - the northeast corner of 16th & Downing (Sundays & Evenings)
Purpose of the InterSpiritual Community
The Buddhist Christian InterSpiritual Community fosters exploration and understanding of diverse spiritual paths. Together we cultivate the Sacred within ourselves and the world around us.
Sponsors
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
The Shambhala Center of Denver
The Thomas Merton Center for Creative Exchange
The Iliff School of Theology
The Denver Zen Center
The Denver Buddhist Temple
Founders of the B/C community
Rev. Dr. Toni L. Cook, Pastor of St. Paul's United Methodist
Church.
Professor Jose Cabezon, Ph.D., The Iliff School of Theology.
Sister Mary Luke Tobin, Sisters of Loretto, Director Emeritus
of The Thomas Merton Center for Creative Exchange.