“Belonging Comes First: a radical new approach to community” 

What if belonging were the starting point for community rather than the reward for fitting in? Diversity brings different people into the room. Inclusion invites participation. Belonging asks whether people can bring their full humanity into that room and help shape what happens there.

Rev. Dr. David Alexander explores a spiritual truth with practical consequences: we belong to one another before we agree with one another. Drawing on the New Thought vision of Oneness, he asks what it would take to build a community where welcome becomes relationship, participation becomes shared purpose, and mistakes become opportunities for repair.

Wholeness is not something we must achieve—it is the spiritual truth of who we already are.
As we awaken to the Divine Presence within, we learn to recognize that same sacred presence in one another.
This message explores how prayer, compassion, and courageous action can move us beyond separation and toward collective healing.
Our spirituality calls us not to escape the world, but to participate in its transformation.
Together, we will embrace the inner freedom that empowers us to create a more just, loving, and liberated world.

This two-part series explores what happens when New Thought’s spiritual principles are cross-examined by the suffering and injustice of the world.

As New Thought embraces a broader justice vision, we are challenged to move beyond explanations that blame individuals for their suffering. The series follows Job’s journey from spiritual certainty, through loss and lament, into a larger experience of Divine Presence. The overall movement is from blame to compassion, from certainty to humility, and from trying to explain suffering to becoming participants in healing and transformation.

This two-part series explores what happens when New Thought’s spiritual principles are cross-examined by the suffering and injustice of the world.

As New Thought embraces a broader justice vision, we are challenged to move beyond explanations that blame individuals for their suffering. The series follows Job’s journey from spiritual certainty, through loss and lament, into a larger experience of Divine Presence. The overall movement is from blame to compassion, from certainty to humility, and from trying to explain suffering to becoming participants in healing and transformation.

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Even in the midst of uncertainty, conflict, and change, there is something within you that has never been broken. In this message, Rev. Dr. David Alexander reminds us that wholeness is not something we achieve—it is something we remember. Through spiritual insight and practical wisdom, he explores how reconnecting with our true nature allows us to meet the challenges of our time with courage, compassion, and clarity. This talk invites you to move beyond fear and into a deeper trust in the presence of the Divine within and among us.

Join me in person at the Center for Spiritual Living Eugene

Great Expectations in Troubled Times

In a world that often tempts us toward resignation, choosing expectancy is a courageous act. Join us as we explore how living in continual expectation of good transforms our inner life and challenges the limitations of outer conditions. When we expect the great, we begin to see what once seemed impossible.

In this groundbreaking work, Rev. Dr. David Alexander examines New Thought philosophy from its inception to today’s iteration to how New Thought must refocus to become a true liberation theology. His focus on creating a New Thought Liberation Theology begins with examining New Thought’s roots, an honest and sometimes raw examination of New Thought today, and a practical, hopeful view of what New Thought can and should be in the world we create for the future.

Rev. David to share a presentation on the New Thought Perspective on Climate. Dr. David will provide a brief history of what is known as the New Thought Movement and share the background and global activities of the Centers for Spiritual Living. Then he will present the highlights of the article he wrote for the April issue of Science of Mind magazine published by the Centers for Spiritual Living.