Phone
(303) 832-4929
Address
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
1615 Ogden Street
Denver, Colorado 80218
St
Paul’s United Methodist Church is located near downtown Denver, Colorado, in the historic district of Capitol Hill. St. Paul’s U.M.C.
can be found at the corner of 16th Avenue and Ogden one block North of Colfax Avenue.
Directions:
From I-25, exit Broadway/Lincoln.
Drive
North on Lincoln Avenue, turn right on Colfax Avenue, heading East.
Turn left (North) on Emerson.
Turn right (East) on 16th Avenue for
1/2 block.
Parking is available next to the church building, accessible through the alley.
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We are a United Methodist, Reconciling, and Buddhist Christian InterFaith Community.
We believe that love and compassion are the essence of Spirit.
We explore Life with open hearts and open minds.
We cultivate personal transformation and committed activism . We welcome individuals of every race, faith, culture, status, ability, orientation, and identity.
We nurture the Sacred within us all.
We believe that love and compassion are the essence of Spirit.
We explore Life with open hearts and open minds.
We cultivate personal transformation and committed activism . We welcome individuals of every race, faith, culture, status, ability, orientation, and identity.
We nurture the Sacred within us all.
St. Paul of Denver
What does progressive faith look like?
THE CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY
proposes the following:
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who…
- Have found an approach to God through the life and teachings of Jesus;
- Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God's realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us;
- Understand the sharing of bread and wine in Jesus's name to be a representation of an ancient vision of God's feast for all peoples;
- Invite all people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order
to be acceptable (including but not limited to):
- believers and agnostics,
- conventional Christians and questioning skeptics, women and men,
- those of all sexual orientations and gender identities,
- those of all races and cultures,
- those of all classes and abilities,
- those who hope for a better world and those who have lost hope;
- Know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe;
- Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning than in absolutes;
- Form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping one another for the work we feel called to do: striving for peace and justice among all people, protecting and restoring the integrity of all God's creation, and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers;
- Recognize that being followers of Jesus is costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil, and renunciation of privilege.
The spiritual life is path not a regime in Washington, the spiritual life is about relationships not rulebooks, the spiritual life is about inclusion, not exclusion, the spiritual life is about justice and opportunity for all not just a few, the spiritual life is about stewardship not dominion"
The spiritual life is path not a regime in Washington,
the spiritual life is about relationships not rulebooks,
the spiritual life is about inclusion, not exclusion,
the spiritual life is about justice and opportunity for all not just a few,
the spiritual life is about stewardship not dominion"
Sunday, March 14th
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Sunday, March 7th
Buddhist Christian Interspiritual Service: “Muslim/Christian Dialogue:
Cultivating Awareness of God Beyond All Concepts”
Speakers: Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni, Shiite Cleric & Scholar of the Holy Qur’an
& Rev. Toni Cook, Minister of St. Paul Church
Ibrahim and Toni will be sharing personal experience and insight from their traditions. Also, they will be including thoughts on the new book by Karen Armstrong, The Case for God. She says that Ancient religious traditions, like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam understood faith primarily as a practice rather than a system. “ Their God was not a being to be defined or a proposition to be tested, but an ultimate reality to be approached…”
Cultivating Awareness of God Beyond All Concepts”
Speakers: Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni, Shiite Cleric & Scholar of the Holy Qur’an
& Rev. Toni Cook, Minister of St. Paul Church
Ibrahim and Toni will be sharing personal experience and insight from their traditions. Also, they will be including thoughts on the new book by Karen Armstrong, The Case for God. She says that Ancient religious traditions, like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam understood faith primarily as a practice rather than a system. “ Their God was not a being to be defined or a proposition to be tested, but an ultimate reality to be approached…”
Buddhist Christian Interspiritual Service: “Buddhist Metta Practice:
A Lovingkindness Meditation”
Speaker: Ven. Claude d’Estree
Lineage holder in the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism & the Son tradition of Korean Buddhism
Claude will instruct us in the ancient Buddhist Metta Practice. In Metta, we direct our strong intention for welfare and happiness towards the self, then in a sequence of expansion, towards all others.
A Lovingkindness Meditation”
Speaker: Ven. Claude d’Estree
Lineage holder in the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism & the Son tradition of Korean Buddhism
Claude will instruct us in the ancient Buddhist Metta Practice. In Metta, we direct our strong intention for welfare and happiness towards the self, then in a sequence of expansion, towards all others.
Buddhist Christian Interspiritual Service: “Becoming More Free:
Wisdom of Buddha & Jesus”
Speaker: Dr. Bob Mischke
Director of the Center for Spiritual Transformation
Bob will present the convergences of spirituality in the teachings of Jesus and Buddha that cultivate freedom
Wisdom of Buddha & Jesus”
Speaker: Dr. Bob Mischke
Director of the Center for Spiritual Transformation
Bob will present the convergences of spirituality in the teachings of Jesus and Buddha that cultivate freedom
Sunday, March 21th
Buddhist Christian Interspiritual Service: “Ignation Meditation Practice”
Speaker: Father Tom Nelson
Father Tom is a Vincentian Priest, Social Activist, and Ignatian Meditation Retreat Leader
Last month, Father Tom did an introduction to the ancient meditation practice developed by St. Ignatius. It is a practice that engages the imagination and invites us to enter the sacred stories. This evening, Father Tom will lead us through an Ignation Meditation on a Parable of Jesus.
Speaker: Father Tom Nelson
Father Tom is a Vincentian Priest, Social Activist, and Ignatian Meditation Retreat Leader
Last month, Father Tom did an introduction to the ancient meditation practice developed by St. Ignatius. It is a practice that engages the imagination and invites us to enter the sacred stories. This evening, Father Tom will lead us through an Ignation Meditation on a Parable of Jesus.
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Tao Te Ching Discussion
Join us in finding the path towards inner strength and virtue. We are an open minded group with the goal of creating a meaningful yet fun discussion about the famous Chinese Classic Text, the Tao Te Ching. Please feel free to join us, regardless of your background or opinions. This is a no-pressure environment. Participation is optional but highly encouraged!
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Force begets force.
- One whose needs are simple can fulfill them easily.
- Material wealth does not enrich the spirit.
- Self-absorption and self-importance are vain and self-destructive.
- The more one acts in harmony with the universe (the Mother of the ten thousand things), the more one will achieve, with less effort.
- The truly wise make little of their own wisdom for the more they know, the more they realize how little they know.
- When we lose the fundamentals, we supplant them with increasingly inferior values which we pretend are the true values.
- Glorification of wealth, power and beauty beget crime, envy and shame. (vanity)
- The qualities of flexibility and suppleness, especially as exemplified by water, are superior to rigidity and strength.
- Everything is in its own time and place.
- Duality of nature that complements each other instead of competing with each other — the two faces of the same coin — one cannot exist without the other.
- The differences of opposite polarities help us to understand and appreciate the universe.
- Humility is the highest virtue.
- Knowing oneself is a virtue.
- Envy is our calamity; overindulgence is our plight.
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