Kiran (they/them) is a student of spirituality interested in understanding our selves and our world as ecologies, and practicing love and interdependence through the teachings of many lineages. They are the Convener of Gathering Ground, an interfaith ecospiritual community in Seattle. They have been shaped by their time in environmental politics, and their community organizing home is in the disability justice and neurodiversity movements. Kiran is a student in the Drikung Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and has also found spiritual nurturing in Lutheran, United Church of Christ, Jewish, and interfaith communities. While holding deep concerns about Western academia, they hold a degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School.
In 2024, our spiritual discernment will be Making a Home for the Mystic Heart
The month of March will focus upon “Confession and Forgiveness“
SHARING OUR WEALTH
Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage.
Thank you for your help!
https://interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org/donate/
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish