cic's Podcast

Bethanie Sand leads a celebration about the senses and using the body to help the mind come into the present moment.

Corey Passons shares three insights (values-based scheduling, rest, and creation spirituality) from his sabbatical in January - February of 2026 with the community.

5/3/26 - Corey Passons leads an interactive celebration on peace-making and the power of interfaith dialogue for connection and understanding.  

4/26/26 - Jamie Rainwood leads a celebration of passages through challenging times, featuring the personal stories of several CIC members, chants and songs.  

Miriam Sterlin leads a celebration that addresses the difficult topic of violence in our sacred stories and how we can deal with that.

"Resistance is not futile":  Corey Passons leads a celebration about the role of effort and resistance in spiritual life and practice.  What is resistance and how is resistance connected to our resilience, response, and renewal?  

Jody Rush shares about his spiritual journey and practices in Christian mysticism.

Wendy Eklund leads a celebration wherein we will come together to celebrate this season of the earth's year and our year - the Harvest. We will look at Completing and Letting go as essential to Renewal  We will consider the challenging task of releasing or reviving personal goals, projects or possessions.

10.19.25 - Corey Passons leads a celebration continuing the theme about a wide vision, a horizon, that leads us toward the line in the CIC call, "for the sake of the whole world."

Jamie Rainwood leads a celebration on resilience, focusing on the interplay between grief and gratitude.

Corey Passons leads a celebration on remembering joy, prioritizing pleasure, and experiencing resilience.

Jodi Kline leads a celebration to honor the holiest of the Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

Corey Passons leads a celebration on reciprocity in the natural world with Robin Wall Kimmerer as a guide.  We will explore choices of response and the power of giving something away.

Kathleen Peppard leads a celebration on Buddhist teachings about equanimity, a practice we can all aspire to in order to develop resilience in stressful times. 

Corey Passons opens the theme of the year, "Resilience, Response, and Renewal" at Reunion Sunday.

May 25th - Based on ideas in playback theatre, Azadi Amaan facilitates community members sharing stories about times they felt deep gratitude and will offer piano playback based on those stories.

May 11th - Corey Passons leads a celebration lifting up the wisdom of CIC mothers and explore how this wisdom could deepen our connection to self, others, the world, and our spiritual source(s).

Corey Passons reflects on the Easter story with the help of Maria, from the "Gospel in Art by the Peasants of Solentiname."

April 6th - "Wisdom from the Margins"  Corey Passons leads a celebration exploring the emerging attempt to withdraw DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) awareness from our institutions.  This celebration asks the what and why of DEI, who benefits from quieting DEI, who suffers?  Finally, we relate the concepts of DEI (as well as the struggle to eradicate it) back to the ancient stories of the Pa...

Judy Olmstead leads a celebration titled: "Creating Resilience within Diversity"  To resist the daunting changes that are happening in our country, people are forming alliances across broadly diverse groups.  To do this, we will all need to have some real tolerance and also an ability to cope when our buttons happen to be pushed.  This kind of resilience within diversity is a very important spirit...

March 23rd - Guest leader Tajali Tolan and Ted Ryle offer a Sufi Zikr (Remembrance) practice for this week's celebration. They are guides in the Sufi Ruhaniat and certified leaders of Dances of Universal Peace. Tajali is the President and Ted a director of the DUP North America Board. 

This audio features a blessing of past and present ministers, a story by founding minister, Jim Symons, and a reflection on CIC by Corey Passons.

Corey Passons leads a celebration that integrates the explorations we have done with the "shadow" and the "not best" parts and looks to the wisdom of the traditions for this integration and look to compassion and empathy as the foundation beneath the practice.

Kathleen Peppard leads a celebration on the shadow.

This celebration asks what is the offering of the "not best" in our lives and the spiritual/religious traditions that we encounter?