Accepting help
Why are we willing to help others but reluctant to accept assistance when we need it?
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Compassion
Compassion is a powerful healing force in the world. However, it is often misunderstood. In recent years, amid a world that feels less kind, we’ve explored compassion more, and we can benefit from learning more about this essential spiritual practice. Let’s explore what a better understanding of compassion can offer to our lives and the … Continue reading Compassion
A Community of Healing
Our theme for the month is healing, and a critical role of faithful community and a meaningful life is creating opportunities for healing. You are invited to explore what might be inviting a healing energy in your life and what we can do as individuals and as a community to bring more of that needed … Continue reading A Community of Healing
All Souls
An important component of religion is its invitation to consider our relationship with our mortality. It often reminds us that life and death are core parts of the natural rhythm of things. It also highlights the importance of remembrance and all it brings to our living. All ages are invited to a service that honors … Continue reading All Souls
Fear Itself
We end the month with a topic deeply related to courage: fear. This service honors the ways that our fears, and our ability to engage them, are powerful teachers.
Subverting Columbus
My adolescence in an indigenous Alaskan village showed me how my life fits into the history of colonialism. To counteract centuries of exploitation, we have a responsibility to reach across cultural boundaries, support each other despite our differences, and help build a land where everyone belongs.
Finding Our Pathways to Courage
One gift of a monthly theme in worship is the chance to explore its many layers and facets. This service will invite us to delve into the many layers and to engage this worthy topic with deeper meaning for our lives.
Gnothi Sauton
A new month and a new theme to guide our journey: Courage. We begin with a spiritual practice essential to courage, to a congregation’s engagement with change and organic growth, and to life itself, summed up in the Greek phrase, Gnothi Sauton. I invite you to explore self-knowledge as an essential soulful skill.
The Spiritual Practice of Friendship
As we begin a new year together, our worship invites you to reflect on the deep value of friendship as a spiritual practice. In a time of new beginnings and a search for belonging, we’ll explore how friendships shape who we are, support us through change, and help us find our place in the community. … Continue reading The Spiritual Practice of Friendship
You Just Might Learn How to Fly
Join us as we embark on a new chapter together. The Interim Time is upon us—a space between what was and what will be. Rather than seeing this as a pause, we invite you to experience it as a season of liberation and possibility. Together, we’ll explore how letting go of old boundaries can open … Continue reading You Just Might Learn How to Fly