Spiritual Life

Foothills Congregational Church is scheduled to host a presentation and book signing with authors Les Kaye and Teresa Bouza 5-6:30 p.m. Saturday in the church’s Parish Hall, 461 Orange Ave., Los Altos.

Kaye and Bouza are authors of “A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley” (Parallax Press, 2018), which explores the ways Zen practice awakens people’s inherent spiritual dimension and brings meaning and authenticity to pressure-packed lives of work and family.

Ashby

Union Presbyterian Church of Los Altos has scheduled a luncheon featuring a presentation by Bernadette Ashby on the exploitation of women in Asia noon May 10 in the church’s Fellowship Hall, 858 University Ave.

Ashby, who travels each year to Bangkok and Pattaya in Thailand to oversee volunteers who are helping women there learn new ways to achieve economic independence, will discuss the thousands of women and children from poor countries in Asia who are forced into the sex trade around the world each year.

Christians don’t base their faith in Jesus on the story of creation in the Bible. Good Christians disagree about where on the scale of literal to allegorical the first few chapters of the Bible are exactly, so it is clear that our faith is not based on that. Our faith isn’t based on the correct version of the Bible, though we talk about that a fair bit, too. Our faith is not based on which denomination, which pastor is the correct pastor, which view of the Revelation of John is precisely correct, either.

Our faith is built on an event, a one-time event. An event where lots of people saw a man die, clearly die, and then saw Him alive three days later. If Jesus was not raised from the dead, then Christians are to be pitied for their faith in something that isn’t true – that we have foolishly based our present lives and our eternal future on something that isn’t true.

Foothills Congregational Church is scheduled to host a book signing with authors Les Kaye and Teresa Bouza 5-6:30 p.m. May 4 in the church’s Parish Hall, 461 Orange Ave., Los Altos.

Kaye and Bouza are co-authors of “A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley” (Parallax Press, 2018), which explores the ways Zen practice awakens people’s inherent spiritual dimension and brings meaning and authenticity to the pressure-packed lives of work and family.

Phillip Hockley, a practitioner of Christian Science healing, is scheduled to discuss “A New View of God and Its Effect on Well-Being” 7:30 p.m. Monday (April 15) at the Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, SecondStage, 500 Castro St.

After sustaining a debilitating injury that was diagnosed as rendering him permanently disabled, Hockley began investigating ways to improve his situation. Along the course of his search, he attended a lecture on Christian Science.

“During that lecture, I found something that was indeed life-transforming,” he said. “Christian Science gave me a new view of God that I’d not had before: a view of God as love itself, divine love that loved me fully. I also discovered that this loving God was not the source of my troubles, which were many, but the solution to them. My life began to improve quickly and I became a healthy man.”

Hockley now speaks on Christian Science, introducing the core principles to audiences all over the world. His presentation will draw on concepts from the Bible, especially Jesus’ life and teachings, as well as explanations from “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” the textbook of Christian Science written by Mary Baker Eddy.

After the difference Christian Science made in his own life, Hockley wanted to share it with others dealing with similar mindsets of discouragement.

“From that moment on, I knew I had found something very special and could hardly wait to explain this experience to others – this ability to love and be loved by God,” he said.

Currently, he maintains a healing ministry and is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

Admission to the talk is free and open to all.

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Foothills Congregational Church is scheduled to host two presentations and book signings with authors Les Kaye and Teresa Bouza, 5-6:30 p.m. May 4 and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 5 in the church’s Parish Hall, 461 Orange Ave., Los Altos.

Kaye and Bouza are authors of “A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley” (Parallax Press, 2018), which explores the ways Zen practice awakens people’s inherent spiritual dimension and brings meaning to pressure-packed lives of work and family.