Sacred Christmas Music concert featuring both classic and contemporary pieces, performed by the Life of Learning Singers during our annual Holiday Banquet weekend.

Topics covered: When you are reliving any moment, you can't be reborn; Transfiguration is when something old isn't just renewed, but is remade in another image so that it is uplifted, glorified, and beautified as a result of its relationship with what has acted upon it; Something hasn't taken your freedom from you -- you have given your freedom away without knowing it. There is no freedom outside of a relationship with God...

There is a story in the New Testament in which Christ emphatically throws upside-down the tables of the money-changers in the temple. And yet Christ was (and is) the representation of a beneficent, compassionate, and loving intelligence -- love thine enemies -- judge not lest ye be judged. How does one reconcile Christ's edict of "love thine enemies" with the fact of the over-throwing of the m...

Topics covered: Though we don't see the innumerable ways fear compromises us, it is always there; Fear doesn't come from a source outside of us; The sense of 'I' is a marriage between conflicting forces; The moment of relationship awakens revelation of what has been unknown within us; Revelation produces integration; Lessons ride in on the back of events; When you are the very being you're pur...

Part 1 - Here is what Jesus Christ knew that we too must understand if we would be free: the harder the load he agreed to bear, the better it was for everyone.

Topics Covered: What do we all really need in this life? We need to be loved; Everything we do in this life, however mistaken or incomplete it may be, is for the sake of feeling loved. But there is an immense difference between feeling loved and being loved. Feeling loved is a desire; being loved is an action; In order to love you as myself I must first stop trying to make you into me.

Topics covered: Anything that introduces you to your mechanical behavior is of the highest value; Learning to die spiritually before you die physically; Having a disability changes your values; Christ already lives in you; The world asks us to be many things, and the Divine asks us to be one; You will have given enough when you understand there's no "you" giving anything; Everything is...

Classroom Talk: 8/3/2025 - Given the values of the world in which we live today, it's no small wonder that the first of the beatitudes -- "Blessed are the poor in spirit" -- more often than not proves itself a painful paradox regarding the notion of real wealth; for the truth is -- as Christ taught -- that the less we take ourselves to be, the more we're given to discover all that we are, and forever will be.

 

Student Talks: 8/8/2025 - Given the values of the world in which we live today, it's no small wonder that the first of the beatitudes -- "Blessed are the poor in spirit" -- more often than not proves itself a painful paradox regarding the notion of real wealth; for the truth is -- as Christ taught -- that the less we take ourselves to be, the more we're given to discover all that we are, and forever will be.

 

Topics covered: Jesus Christ, acceptance, responsibility, responsible, would this cup pass from my lips, do what you don't want to do, one's fate, resistance, will...

Topics covered: The relationship between passion and sexuality; Uncontrollable epileptic seizures and level of self; Christ overturning the tables in the Temple; What to do as my relationship falls apart; What are thoughts; Giving sincere apologies; Why life at all; Feeling jerked around like a puppet on a string; What is the devil; Is God in me; Attracting people and events that prevent us fr...

The life and death of the Christ did not happen two-thousand years ago, any more than the rising and setting of the sun belongs to a particular place and time. Seen, or not, the life of Christ is always now...