Date/Time
Date(s) - Mar 29, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
First Unitarian Church of Honolulu
Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson
We live as if we are separate — divided by religion, race, ethnicity, language, country, state, sex, gender, body and spirit, by reason and desire, by the love we earn and the love we freely give. But the poets and mystics have always known otherwise.
Drawing on the prophetic imagination of William Blake, the luminous symbols of W.B. Yeats, and the quiet revolutionary epiphany of E.M. Forster, this sermon explores the ancient and urgent truth beneath all spiritual traditions: that the fragments are the illusion, and the connection is the reality.
A Japanese sword wrapped in a court lady’s torn silk. A marriage of heaven and hell. A house that holds what modernity keeps trying to divide. Three writers. One insistence.
Across all people. Across all beings. Only connect.
