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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Work That Reconnects, on Saturday, 9th May, from 8pm to 9:45pm Jane Lewis & Chris Booth offer a Truth Mandala workshop. Part of a 24-hour Active Travel, Active Hope event at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Full programme: artandecology.earth/active-trave... #wtr #workthatreconnects #activehope

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Active Travel Active Hope

Active Travel, Active Hope Invite Join us as we celebrate active travel and active hope. Take time to walk, run or wheel together. “[P]athways are valuable only if they are used. Humanity has…

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

#WorkThatReconnects weekend near Stirling, August 8-10, for everyone concerned by the multiple existential threats facing our world, to help us reconnect with each other, restore our spirit, build our resilience and heal our relationship with the land. chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/sauchie-work...

Work That Reconnects weekend

Sauchie Home Farm, Stirling 8th-10th August 2025 The multiple existential threats to our world seem worse every time we look at the news: species going extinct, plastic polluting the oceans, rising wa...

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Saturday Regen, a monthly potluck lunch and peer-learning session taking inspiration from Joanna Macy’s writings on Active Hope and the Work that Reconnects artandecology.earth/saturday-reg...

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Saturday Regen

Saturday Regen A potluck lunch and peer-learning session taking inspiration from Joanna Macy’s writings on Active Hope and the Work that Reconnects 2 – 5pm on the 2nd Saturday of the mo…

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Donald Trump sparked outrage worldwide with his shocking display of bullying at Friday's Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 145,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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No second state visit for Trump

Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Elon Musk invites you to share news of what you've acheived this week. He'd love to hear *all* your stories and even if you're not a federal worker, please do contribute. Time to throw a few sabots in the mill of fascism by spamming this email address: hr@opm.gov

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#MonthofMinistry Day 22 - WISDOM In Buddhism, wisdom doesn't just mean having a lot of knowledge or understanding. It's about an insight or about the true nature of reality, the realisation that all things are deeply interconnected - "emptiness". More: chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/mom22

Wisdom - Chris Booth Ceremonies

#MonthofMinistry Day 22 In Buddhism, wisdom doesn’t just mean having a lot of knowledge or understanding. Instead it’s about having an insight or realisation about the true nature of reality. This is ...

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#MonthofMinistry Days 17-18 LIGHT & DARKNESS I’m troubled by the identification of “light” with what is good, and “darkness” with wickedness and death. Don’t we need both dark and light? Is it time to begin reclaiming darkness? chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/mom17-18/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZ9...

Light and Darkness - Chris Booth Ceremonies

#MonthOfMinistry Days 17 and 18 In Quaker circles we talk a lot about the “Light”. It’s one of the commonest words we use to point at the sense (beyond all words) of good and loving kindness within ea...

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 14 - INTENTION We are foundering in a stormy sea of competing demands to address the challenges of cultural collapse, rising fascism, genocidal greed, our very planet burning around us? Setting clear intentions is a guide on the way. chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/mom14

Intention - Chris Booth Ceremonies

#MonthOfMinistry Day 14 How do we find balance between “surrender” and “intention”? The latter sounds like a focussed act of will, the very opposite of “Give over thine own willing, give over thine ow...

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 11 SURRENDER A difficult word: how can we give up the struggle when the forces of greed, hatred, fascism (not a term I use lightly, but which seems accurate) are hell-bent on destroying all we've created to care for one another and our planet? chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/mom11

Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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#MonthOfMinistry Day 10 - CHURCH I don't belong to a "church", but I guess our Quaker Meeting is the nearest equivalent. If you're used to going to church, it might be a little different to what you expect! chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/church-month...

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Quakers in Britain

Quakers are a faith group committed to working for equality and peace. We try to live in truth, peace, simplicity, and equality, finding God in ourselves and those around us. Our meetings offer a welc...

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 8 - FAITH Imani, faith, can come like a spirit Spirit come like walking on air. Take a step and trust in the path and Mother Imani meet you there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pHj... chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/faith-montho...

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Imani

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 9 PRESENCE We experience being fully here, in the world, in the present moment, and remember that we're all interconnected in a deep way. As John O'Donohue puts it, we "experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder". chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/presence/

Presence - Chris Booth Ceremonies

#MonthOfMinistry Day 9 Presence – the still place where we experience being fully here, in the world, in the present moment, and remember that we’re all interconnected in a deep way. The place where, ...

Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 7 - EVOLVING XKCD reminds us that we are related to stromatolites (xkcd.com/3046). chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/evolving/

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 6 LOVE I know you’re scared And I’m scared too But here I am Right next to you African-American singer/songwriter and activist Melanie DeMore reminds us to lead with love in these times of fear and chaos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dbX... chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/love/

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Lead with Love—Melanie DeMore

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 4 INTERFAITH The image shows St Nicholas (definitely not chanelling his cosy Santa Claus persona!) about to slap Arius at the First Council of Nicaea. Read more: chris-booth-ceremonies.earth/interfaith-m...

Saint Nicholas of Myra slapping Arius at the First Council of Nicaea

In a wedding ceremony I often introduce the section where the couple speak their promises with some words like these: “Remember that these are not chains to bind you, but guides and reminders to help you in the adventures to come.”

I think it’s helpful to see a vow in a different way: not a loss of freedom or a promise that we might fail to live up to, but a way of setting a clear structured intention. To help focus that intention, we can do that in a ritual or cermonial seeting, with symbolic actions like exchanging rings.

It’s clear that many folk are wary of vows, perhaps because they fear they are going to be somehow trapped by them, or fail in some way if they “break” the vow.

Fine of course, and there are other ways of framing this: perhaps they can make some gratitude statements, express how they love and appreciate each other, what makes their relationship meaningful and important, and what their wishes and intentions are for the future.

What, after all, makes a wedding ceremony if it’s not the chance to tell your partner how you mean to be in relationship to them, to make a speech act that changes something about that relationship?

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#MonthOfMinistry Day 3 A couple came to me for a wedding ceremony recently, and I asked the what vows or promises they wanted to make to each other. “No vows!” they said, and I was momentarily at a loss.

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Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What, after all, makes a wedding ceremony if it's not the chance to tell your partner how you mean to be in relationship to them, to make a speech act that changes something about that relationship?

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Might it be better to focus on doing what emerges joyfully from our inbuilt love and compassion for our fellow humans, other beings, and the wide world around? Photo is a wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis. © Copyright Patrick Roper and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The word is related to the Latin servus, a slave. When we use it to describe our activity, particularly in a spiritual context, it's easy to feel we're doing things in a transactional way, in order to avoid punishment, displeasure from god or our fellow people, or to achieve praise and merit.

Chris Booth @plainsupper.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

#MonthOfMinistry Day 2: SERVICE To tell the truth, I'm rather wary of the word "service". It has too many connotations of unequal relationship, situations where work isn't offered freely (military service, domestic service, ...). #WeAreROSIM #InterfaithMinister

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Likewise, great to meet you April! It's a great way of builidng our own network as well as outreach. Look forward to seeing what you have to say on the ohter prompts...

I don’t promise to write every day, but do follow me on my website (chris-booth-ceremonies.earth), on Facebook (www.facebook.com/chris.booth....), on Instagram (www.instagram.com/plainsupper/). #WeAreROSIM #InterfaithMinister @BringItToTheAltar @osmic_onespirit_in_connection

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Homepage - OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation

Among many other things, I’m a OneSpirit Interfaith Minister. February 2025 is #MonthOfMinistry, a time for us to write a bit about what that is (and it’s probably different for each OneSpirit minister). We are invited to post on social media against a series of one-word prompts, one for each day.

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