Our community is created by those who have come before and those who are here right now. Our congregation is also a promise to those who have yet to arrive. What we build together today honors the commitments of previous generations, and helps us leave a legacy for people we will meet in the future. … Continue reading Building the Home of Our Future
As we reflect on the meaning of Yom Kippur, we also reflect on the practice of atonement, of apology at the level of community. To apologize is to begin a transformation that involves not only the person who made a mistake but to also transform the relationships between people and through those threads, entire communities. … Continue reading Apt Apologies
What does it mean to honor the inherent worth and dignity of everyone in a world that is imperfect? How do we honor that worth in ourselves knowing that we too are imperfect? We will explore how to balance the ways we can appear broken and whole at once, and the ways the world can … Continue reading Worthy and Whole
We begin our year together in ways we could not have predicted. We recognize the interconnectedness of each of us to one another, and we recognize that we are not as close physically as we would like to be. We remember what it means to be a community and we reclaim that connection through a … Continue reading The Water Remembers
What does it mean to be part of a community and how do we know when we are in fact part of such a thing? Our Great Pause as a society has called into question many of our prior assumptions about religious congregations and all sorts of other ways we are, or are not, part … Continue reading Making Real Community
