Sunshine Cathedral Blog

Join the Hospitality Ministry of the Sunshine Cathedral. Email mdiaz@sunshinecathedral.net.

An invitation to hear the Reverend Doctor Rocco Errico speak at the Sunshine Cathedral on Friday, March 5th, at 7:00 pm.
This is also an invitation to attend the International New Thought Alliance (INTA) conference, which will be in Fort Lauderdale July 12 – 16.

Question: I am a gay man in my mid 60’s who is searching for a spiritual home. I’m a former Roman Catholic but I no longer believe much of what I was taught as a child. Even though I have more doubts than solid beliefs, I still want a place to explore spirituality, to commune [...]

“A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘universe’… He [or she] experiences himself [or herself], his [or her] thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to [...]

Join the Pride Outreach volunteers for 2010 Pride Fest. Email mdiaz@sunshinecathedral.net.

Question: None of my prayers are being answered lately. I wonder if God can hear me. What do you say to people who have this sort of crisis of faith?
Answer: I’m not sure you’re having a faith crisis. It takes a lot of faith (“trust”) to ask honest questions and to name genuine feelings. In [...]

The Lenten season extends over a 46-day period beginning Ash Wednesday and ending on the eve of Easter. The six Sundays in Lent are not actually a part of Lent, and therefore the Lenten season itself is 40 days. Sunday, being weekly commemorations of the first Easter, have always been excluded from this fast[ing] season.
Lent [...]

“And the LORD said to Moses, ‘See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh…’” Exodus 7.1
Moses was retrieved from the river when he was just a baby. Perhaps we are in a sea of possibilities, safe and nurtured even though we don’t know for sure where we’ll end up, until someone sees our sacred [...]

Sharing the Light is an Internet talk show where Reverends Durrell Watkins, Robert Griffin, and others discuss theological questions of interest to our community.
In this episode of Sharing the Light, Sunshine Cathedral’s Senior Pastor Durrell Watkins speaks with Director of Media and Justice Ministry Robert Griffin. We invite you to join us for an enlightening conversation [...]

by Rev. Dr. Mona West
Delivered at Redeeming Jesus: A Progressive Christianity Mini-Conference (Sunshine Cathedral, Jan. 22-23, 2010)
Lesbian feminist theologian Carter Heyward reminds us that including the gospels themselves, any representation or interpretation of Jesus is influenced by political and historical contexts as well as issues of race, class, gender—all the contours of our lives. Not [...]