About the Service:
Sometimes it’s easy to ignore the elephant in the room, or rooms in this case. We seem to have a lot of “stuff.” So much so that our modern popular culture seems based on looking for, advertising, buying, storing and selling stuff. There’s an entire advertising and entertainment industry on all the things we consume: Pawn Stars, American Pickers and Storage Wars are just a few of the popular cable TV shows that show us just how much stuff there is out there. The goal of this message is to ponder some of the spiritual consequences that our consumer economy has on our lives.
About our speaker:
Kirk Newport was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but raised in California. After college at San Francisco State University, he served 3 years in the United States Army, followed by careers in hospital clinical laboratories and teaching clinical lab science at Del Mar College. He has been a member of U2C3 since 1996. During that time he has been a 3 time Board member, choir member and longtime church grounds worker. He is an amateur cellist and enjoys most outdoor activities. Kirk has one daughter, three step-sons and multiple grandchildren. Originally raised within the Methodist Church, Kirk is a Buddhist.
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Topics: Buddhism, Consumerism, Honoring the Earth, Interdependent Web