It can be so easy to find oneself trudging through life, head down, just enduring. Our December Soul Matters theme is “Awe” and on this first Sunday in December we will be exploring how awe can break in on our routines and wake us up to the sheer wonder of being alive at all. Awe … Continue reading Awe: The Miracle of Each Moment
What is enough? How do we know? As we prepare to enter the holiday season, so filled with abundance (and over-abundance) of every kind for some of us, and for others, yearning and wishfulness for such abundance, what is to be learned from the voluntary simplicity movements, as well as modern understanding of the power … Continue reading Enough
Our November Soul Matters theme is “Attention”. Join us on November 3rd for a poignant service to honor those who have passed away and yet live on in our hearts and memories. Bring photos, mementos, or cards for our annual candle lighting ritual. The ushers will have blank cards at the door as well. The … Continue reading All Souls: A Gathering of Spirits
This Sunday service, in honor of the October birthday of St. Francis, will be a celebration and blessing of animals, both our companions and the wild ones.You are welcome to bring your dog, cat, hamster, rabbit, hermit crab, or other animal that lives with you. If it easier, you can a picture of your animal … Continue reading Blessing of the Animals
Mental illness is still one of our great taboo subjects. Our language is filled with pejoratives about mental illness: “crazy, insane, loony.” But there is little serious discussion. Yet almost all of us are touched by mental illness in some way, through our own life or the lives of loved ones. In this sensitive service, we … Continue reading All My Favorite People Are Broken
This is the first of our “Soul Matters” themed services, and “What does it mean to be a people of belonging” is the Soul Matters theme for October. We all want to belong. But belonging can imply that some don’t belong. Where and how do we draw the circle wider? Where is our circle of belonging potentially … Continue reading Draw the Circle Wide
The early 20th century radical Emma Goldman famously said, “A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.” A more contemporary writer, Adrienne Maree Brown, coined the term, “pleasure activism” and she asks us these questions: “How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires … Continue reading The Power of Celebration
Youth-led climate change organizations have called for a global climate strike on Friday, September 20th. As Greta Thurnberg has said: No one is acting as if we were in a crisis. Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we … Continue reading Global Climate Strike
For our annual Water Celebration, which celebrates our coming together in community, we will also honor the Water Protectors across the country and the legacy of Standing Rock. Please bring some water in a small container from a place sacred to you, or representing a place sacred to you. ORDER OF SERVICE
In May, our minister traveled to Montgomery Alabama to visit the new Peace and Justice Memorial and other civil rights history sites. In this service she will share some of the transformative learnings from her time in Montgomery and reflect on how we can be inspired at this time by the courage and strength of … Continue reading Learnings From Montgomery
