As we look forward to the coming church year, let us dream about what is possible. What are we building? What leaps of faith are we taking together? What might this “new way” look like? How are we learning from what has been? How is the building embodying the new way? We will welcome the … Continue reading A New Way
The most powerful faith we have is the faith we place in ourselves and each other. By deepening relationship with ourselves and each other, we can build more faith so when we need it. Come, let’s build a more faithful community together as we honor the 393rd Anniversary of the founding of our Parish. Here … Continue reading Faithful Community
Two years ago, we began the lockdown that has come to be understood as the start of the 2020 Covid Pandemic. We have ridden one heck of a rollercoaster together since then. Join us as we lament all that has been lost. And as we celebrate that we are still here, ready to create a … Continue reading Two Years Later
Having faith in the universe is something we feel in our bodies above all else. Join us to discuss and practice embodied faith. What does it mean somatically to live faithfully? How do we reconnect with our faith when our bodies tell us that we are not safe (whether real or imagined)? Here’s the video … Continue reading Embodied Faith
When we find ourselves uncomfortable or defensive, how do we stay curious and learn the lesson before us? How do we find the gifts of disagreement? How do we lean in to relationship when we are in conflict? Relationship is central wherever there is resistance – in us personally, collectively or politically. Join us as … Continue reading Where There is Resistance
There is something magic that happens when we eat together. It is one of the great losses of the pandemic that we cannot gather to eat together safely in the same ways. Fellowship over food is deep and beautiful. Let’s talk about it! Bring something to eat! Just a morsel or more. If you join … Continue reading A Longer Table
What is possible when we weave our intentions throughout our lives? How do we turn the ordinary into spiritual practice? Join us as we weave some intentions into our Sunday morning and discuss the power of intention setting in our lives. This is the service planned for January 9 which has been rescheduled because Rev. Elizabeth … Continue reading Braiding Intentions
Join us Christmas Eve at 5 pm for our traditional service of lessons, songs, and stories. Here is the video of the Christmas Eve service: Then on Sunday December 26 at 11 am, join us to in celebrating Kwanzaa: Kwanzaa is a relatively new celebration which is designed to lift up family, culture and community … Continue reading Christmas Eve Service of Lessons, Songs, and Stories
There are great gifts and wonder in the dark. As we honor solstice, let us look at the potential healing and growth that comes from attending to our shadows. To the darkness inside us as well as that surrounds us this time of year. Let us interrogate the dark within in order to grow. Here … Continue reading Shadows
In order to truly be free, we have to be able to name the boundaries that allow us to remain in relationship with one another. Freedom actually means containers. Join us as we explore the ways in which we take responsibility for the impacts of our actions and how that relates to the need to … Continue reading Free in Relationship
