In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. We are facing the harsh and unforgiving realities of the Middle East war and wars everywhere, feeling the trauma and suffering moral injury. Let us cultivate our awareness and embrace of the common humanity among all peoples as seeds for hope and our prayer for peace.
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us for coffee and a snack after the service.
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. The angels, when they show up in the Christmas story to tell Mary about her unexpected pregnancy, or announce the first noel to the shepherds, start by admonishing, “Fear Not!” In a world with so much to be afraid of, how might we listen a little more to this angelic call? As we celebrate an ancient tale with candles and carols, how can we use the magic of this ritual to remind ourselves that fear and anxiety is not the only story?
Candlelight services
Cookies and Cider between the two services.
No 11 am morning service
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. Holiday logistics—the meals, the gifts, the travel, the getting everyone together and making sure they all have a good time of it all—can turn the most wonderful time of the year into the most stressful time of the year. All this effort for good holiday cheer, for joy.
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. As we light the Hanukkah candles and stay up tending the solstice fire, we remember that while our holiday rituals lift up and celebrate the light, they also beckon us toward paying attention to the dark.
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. Many of us are taught ways to listen. But it’s rare in our culture to have spaces where we welcome to soul to show up and speak.
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. Geologists suggest naming this current era “The Anthropocene Period” or, The Age of Humankind since the future of the Earth is now, literally, in our hands. As stewards/partners of creation, how can we ‘save ourselves from ourselves?’
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.
In Person
Followed by Thanksgiving Potluck Lunch at 2 pm
Turkey will be provided; please plan to bring a side dish or dessert to share and your own beverage of choice. RSVP for the potluck online or on the table outside the office.
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. This Thanksgiving season we set our table with both the abundance of the harvest and our lamentation over the atrocities woven through the traditions we have inherited. Sitting down at a table piled high with all that is ripe before us, what might it mean to feast on gratitude that is seasoned by grief?
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. The acclaimed therapist and writer Resmaa Menakem offers the distinction between clean pain and dirty pain as he reflects on how we heal from personal and cultural trauma. How do we know when pain has ripened and is ready to be cleanly felt, and healed? And what gives us the courage to harvest?
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.
In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. While we like to think of ourselves as the captains of our own ships—independent actors charting the course of our own lives—life always finds a way to reveal that before we ever ripen into the moment of making our own choices, our stories are shaped by those who’ve come before us.
In Person Coffee Hour
Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.
