The Rev. James Ishmael Ford - July 12, 2026
The Divine Intoxicant: An Awkward Metaphor for Living into this World
Today our old friend the Reverend James Ishmael Ford will share some thoughts about what it means to meet this world without filters? The Reverend James Ishmael Ford has been a UU minister for more than thirty-five years, twenty-five of them as a parish minister. He has also been authorized as a Zen teacher in a traditional lineage. The author of seven books, his eighth, a novel, The Priest’s Tale: A Fantasy of the Spiritual Life is due from Monkfish Books this coming February. Karen Hsu Patterson, worship associate. Order of Service: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14777ggxb0jrlWUQRa0pDI0PTTnCQRb-n3sYmghVH9lE/edit?tab=t.0
From Monthly: "Welcoming Summer Together"
Come, sing a song with me. Come sing a song with me. Come sing a song with me that I might know your mind. And I’ll bring you hope, when hope is hard to find. And I’ll bring a song of love and a rose in the wintertime. ~ text and music by Carolyn McDade; Hymn # 346, Singing the Living Tradition, and in Come, Sing a Song with Me, by the UU Musicians Network