This year’s sermon series is about practices that promote connection to our inner life as well as the larger world. Some might call them spiritual practices. However, they are very much embodied and about how we relate to humanity, whether we believe in the divine or approach the world non theistically. The practice of focus … Continue reading Practices of Connection: Prayer & Meditation
As we celebrate Easter and the renewal all around us, we also look to the changing landscape of our social world. What is on the other side of winter, of Lent, and of loss? How do we approach the season to come? View the Order of Service here. Watch the entire service on Facebook. Special … Continue reading Life Calls Us On
Our traditional Sunrise Service will be held online this year. We will hold it at 7:00 a.m. on Zoom. With pictures of bonfires and flower barge sailings of past years, we will sing and worship together. Spring is here! There is much we are letting go and much to hope for in the coming season. … Continue reading Easter Sunrise Service
We have been in this strange space of online Sunday services for a year. We have also been living for the past year in a world that has been transformed. During this service we will recall the state of the pandemic, the losses and the unique possibilities that have emerged. We will also hold the … Continue reading A Year in the Life
This year’s sermon series will be about practices that promote connection to our inner life as well as the larger world. Some might call them spiritual practices. However, they are very much embodied and about how we relate to humanity whether we believe in the divine or approach the world nontheisticly. The practice of focus … Continue reading Practices of Connection: Pilgrimage
Now more than ever we need to have open conversation and critique of our leaders in power. How do we do that respectfully? So many are taught that to question authority is disrespectful. How do you move forward in a world where we need to question and hold our leaders accountable? View the Order of … Continue reading Question Authority: accountability, critique, and respectability
This year’s sermon series will be about practices that promote connection to our inner life as well as the larger world. Some might call them spiritual practices. However, they are very much embodied and about how we relate to humanity whether we believe in the divine or approach the world non theistically. The practice of … Continue reading Practices of Connection: Justice
Mercy’s definition reminds us that, on the human level, it involves the virtues of compassion and forgiveness. Dr. Janet K. Ruffing, RSM, a Sister of Mercy, reminds us that “compassion is more than a feeling…it also involves an effective response, a remedy or amelioration of concrete suffering.” She writes mercy, as compassion, “addresses the root … Continue reading A Broader Mercy
How do you measure a year? How do you measure a lifetime? In coffee hours, in Sunday morning gatherings, in rites of passage, in fellowship, and in laughter shared. Join us as we celebrate our community and our co-creation of this place. View the Order of Service here. Watch the entire service on Facebook. Homily … Continue reading Seasons of Love
Join us as we explore a selection of poetic, spiritual, and clinical readings on grief, and draw inferences on how to best console our friends and loved ones who are mourning a loss. View the Order of Service here. Watch the entire service on Facebook. Homily – Consoling the Mourning Homily – This Strange Grief … Continue reading Consoling the Mourning
