Spiritual Events

Worship Leader: Rev. Dr. Sharon
Asherah Siegel
Worship Associate: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Rev. Dr. Sharon Asherah Siegel will share some of the rituals of The Goddess Temple of Palm Springs. She will address the need for feeling spiritual at this time of uncertainty in our personal lives, and as we live with national and world chaos.

Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff 

More information coming soon!

Worship Leader: Anita Rufus
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum

Anita Rufus, who has specialized in end-of-life options for over 20 years, will talk about Advance Directives and the importance of having discussions with your family about what you do and do not want.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff

We value knowledge highly in our tradition, embracing varieties of knowledge about things: thinking and ideas and theories. But we often devalue knowledge grounded in doing, making, and crafting. How might we benefit from the deep knowledge of makers and crafters and tradespeople as we imagine the beloved community?

Worship Leader: Lisa Middleton
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
Lisa Middleton is a member of the Palm Springs City Council. In 2017, she became the first transgender person elected to a political office in California, in 2021 she became only the third transgender person in US History to be the Mayor of an American city. Lisa will speak not only of her lived experience but of the challenges facing transgender people today as so many seek to politicalize transgender identity.