Oasis On The Arkansas | Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar

What if you didn't have to choose between believing everything your religion tells you, and believing nothing at all? Most of us have been told those are the only two options.All Souls Unitarian Church exists for that wider space in between. It's a community where people build their own relationship to faith, meaning, and mystery, instead of inheriting someone else's certainty.Almost everyone who finds their way here says the same thing: they wish they'd found it years sooner. And most people don't stumble onto a place like this on their own. They find it because someone else told them it existed.QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:- Have you ever felt forced to pick between "true believer" and "nothing at all"?- What would it mean to build your beliefs from your own experience, instead of what you were taught?- Have you ever felt pressured to defend your beliefs to someone determined to convert you?- Who in your life might need to know a place like All Souls exists?CHAPTERS:0:00 Music0:54 Opening1:22 A Church For Skeptics1:33 What Is an Oasis?3:47 A Letter From Grove4:45 Spiritual, Not Religious9:12 Losing Sienna9:54 An Angry Kind of Grief11:21 Room to Breathe13:44 A Zen Parable14:35 Two Kinds of Travelers17:14 Spread the Word19:12 The Real Moral Issues21:02 An Oasis For All21:30 ClosingThis message, "Oasis on the Arkansas," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.GIVE A DONATION TO HELP US SPREAD THIS LOVE BEYOND BELIEF: https://www.allsoulschurch.org/GIVE or text LOVEBB to 73256LET'S CONNECT:Facebook: /allsoulstulsaInstagram: /allsoulstulsaAll Souls Church Website: https://www.allsoulschurch.org#AllSoulsTulsa #AllSoulsUnitarianChurch #LoveBeyondBelief #UnitarianUniversalist #ProgressiveClergy