Virtual Sunday service with Guest Speaker Anne Bokma

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience,” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. Anne shares her difficult journey of leaving a fundamentalist religion as well as insights from her whirlwind year of experimenting with two dozen spiritual practices—from singing to solitude to going to a witch camp and going on a pilgrimage to swim in Walden Pond —and how they taught her to live more attentively and authentically in the world. All of us are on a spiritual journey yet so often we neglect this essential aspect of our lives.

Anne Bokma (she/her) is a journalist, author, memoir writing coach and a member of the First Unitarian Church in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  Her 2019 memoir, My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman’s Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life, is the recipient of two Hamilton Literary Awards. Anne is the founder of the 6-Minute Memoir “speed storytelling for a cause” live storytelling event, which celebrates its 10th year this year.  You can sign up for her monthly newsletter at annebokma.com