Susan Maginn

In her formal military portrait, Susan Maginn poses solemnly in her dress uniform in front of the US flag.

Susan Maginn (she/her) is a U.S. Navy chaplain currently serving the Marines in California.

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We are in the midst of advent, friends, and I have to admit how much I love this season. Like most clergy I feel that it is my job, 24/7/365 to orient the world to the best of my ability toward peace, love, hope and joy....

Sermon | By Susan Maginn | February 19, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Doubt, Faith, Justice, Peace, Race/Ethnicity, Suffering, Unitarian Universalism, Wisdom
A line of footprints going up a sand dune, leading to a small figure on the horizon

You are not alone, dear one...you are among all those who have walked this straining path before. You are not alone... you are with the wisdom of all your ancestors who live, if nowhere else, in the cells of your body and breath, remembering you from the very beginning....

Prayer | By Susan Maginn | February 18, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Community, Faith, Strength, Unitarian Universalism, Wisdom

I’ve always had a fantasy about going to the airport with just the clothes on my back, my ID, a credit card and my toothbrush. I go through the revolving door, walk up to the counter and look up at the day’s flight schedule as if I were looking at the menu in a coffee shop. But instead of...

Sermon | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Multiculturalism, Reverence, Searching, Spiritual Practice, Transformation, Multiculturalism

Breathe with me You who feel sorrows calling across the oceans, calling across the room, echoing in the spacious cavern of your chest. Breathe with me You who wake with the sun carrying a restlessness to make justice and do mercy....

Meditation | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Direct Experience, Humility

Many of us have stories about God. A college student once told me how he asked questions about God in his childhood church and the leaders did not know how to answer. He decided that God must not be real....

Sermon | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Agnosticism, Atheism, God, Love, Religion, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, Universalism, Worth

As we settle into our seat all of our life comes down with us, like an extended slinky retracting into a single cylinder Back you snap into this body and breath where each day is born and done familiar in this cushion familiar in this ache....

Meditation | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Body, Presence, Silence, Wholeness, Worth

Let us do the unthinkable thing. We'll sit and breathe together on the edge of our seats in a world that pollenates and reproduces, shape shifting and breaking into bloom. Let us sit and breathe together as one breath, sit still just long enough for each of our dreams to rise and silently hover...

Meditation | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Body, Nature, Transcendence

From beyond the playful summer clouds, beyond the earth's thin blue line, from beyond the bright moon and meteor showers, we hear the call to look and listen carefully, to turn away from a world that buys and sells happiness, to fully experience the luring whisper of your heart's truth. Why not...

Opening | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Community, Direct Experience, Listening, Presence

Readings An excerpt from “The Sonnets To Orpheus” by Rainer Maria Rilke Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21 Lyrics to Tracy Chapman’s song “Be And Be Not Afraid” Sermon The character of God said it to the reluctant Hebrew prophets who were always charged with speaking truth to power. “Be not...

Sermon | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Courage, Faith, Fear

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