Speaker: Rev. Shaie Dively

We covenant to…

Click here to access our livestream which starts about 10:30. As we move into late fall and the chilly nights of November, we’ll begin exploring our next theme: covenant. The online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary provides several definitions of this word, including: 1) “a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement;” 2) “a written agreement or promise … Continue reading We covenant to…

Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Leaning into the Comfort of Halloween, Folklore, and Samhain

View the Order of Service here. Click here to access our livestream which starts about 10:30. The title for this week’s service comes partly from a book my mom gifted me while I was in the midst of transitioning from middle childhood to adolescence. Like most of Alvin Schwartz’s books, “Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: … Continue reading Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Leaning into the Comfort of Halloween, Folklore, and Samhain

Traveling a Labyrinth: An Inward and Outward Journey

View the Order of Service here. Missed the service? You can view its recording on YouTube.  For the month of October, we will be exploring the theme of “Living the Questions.” This theme invites each of us to embrace and engage with ponderings and explorations that reach deep into our hearts, minds, and souls. Whether these … Continue reading Traveling a Labyrinth: An Inward and Outward Journey

Gather at the River: Ingathering 2026

Missed the service? You can view its recording on YouTube.  This is our annual Water Ritual and Ingathering Sunday Service!  On this Sunday you are invited to bring water from an important water source in your life, whether that is your kitchen tap or garden hose, the water fountain or stream of your neighborhood park, or … Continue reading Gather at the River: Ingathering 2026

Dolores, Gloria, & Angela: A Holy Trifecta

View the Order of Service here. Missed the service? You can view its recording on YouTube.  In the foreword of the third edition of her work “Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities” (2015), historian, activist, and author Rebecca Solnit writes that “your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have … Continue reading Dolores, Gloria, & Angela: A Holy Trifecta

What Will I Fill My Heart With

View the Order of Service here. Missed the service? You can view its recording on YouTube. In 1953, Howard Thurman’s work, Meditations of the Heart, a collection of prayers, poems, and meditations, was published. In one of the theologian and civil rights leader’s offerings, he writes that during turbulent times,  “Let us not be deceived.  It … Continue reading What Will I Fill My Heart With