January 14 & 15 – “Comfort the Afflicted”
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”...
January 1 @ *10 am – “Beginning the World Over Again”
Awake, arise, and greet a new beginning! The start of anything new benefits from letting go of (some of) what came before and setting an intention for the work ahead. On this New Year’s Day,...
December 24 @ 4:30pm – “Welcome Christmas”
Gather for a celebration of the spirit that infuses this season with hope and joy and holy light. Through stories, music, carols, and poetry, we will honor the blessings and gifts of Christmas and celebrate...
December 18 – “Mysterious Darkness, Wondrous Light”
The hours of daylight are quickly being eclipsed by the hours of darkness as we approach the solstice on December 21. These are the days when we are quick to light candles and welcome the...
December 17 – “Winter Solstice: Honoring the Darkness, Welcoming the Light”
The longest night of the year, the Winter Solstice is the time when the light returns, and our days slowly begin to lengthen. It is a time to remember, in story and song, the hope...
December 3 & 4 – “Space & Other Final Frontiers”
The stars in the night sky have been a source of wonder and awe for human beings since long before the written word, and perhaps even before language itself. As we as a species have...
November 12 & 13 – “How to Change a Light Bulb”
Change takes work. This is true about change in the realm of the physical, the tangible, the material–but it is equally true about the inward realm of our own thoughts, feelings, and experiences. And each...
October 29 & 30 – “The Dead Who Live in Us”
On this weekend of remembrance, when we honor All Souls Day, we reflect on those lives which, though ended, continue to shape our own. They are the stories which our own journeys serve as sequels...
October 15 & 16 – “The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing”
Zygmunt Bauman wrote, “Most fearsome is the ubiquity of fears.” Sometimes the hardest sort of courage to recognize or to summon in ourselves is the courage to move beyond fears so common that they have...
October 1 & 2 – “A Very Narrow Bridge”
Courage is often imagined as the absence of fear–a spirit which presses forward, heedless of any consequences. But fear can also be viewed as something to live with or even appreciate–so long as we do...