Easter Sunday: All Ages Service
Easter is about love, loss and redemption. So, is the Velveteen Rabbit. Join us for this All Ages Reader’s Theater telling of the 1921 classic.
Archives: Services
Together We Rise: Rise and Respond!
As we welcome new members into the church, we consider the values of this congregation and their importance in our lives. How do we respond to a world in need? How can we make the world a better place?
On Congregational Polity: How we embody our freedom and our connection.
Building on last week’s worship, we’ll explore how the way we govern ourselves is a part of our theological framework. This shorter worship service will be followed (at 9:15) or preceded (11:00am) by a Congregational meeting (10:15am) on the budget. Please join us at 9:15 or 10:15 this week.
Freedom and Connection
Author Mia Birdsong writes “Being free is, in part, achieved through being connected.” This framing has much to offer us, as covenantal people of a free faith. Come explore the life-giving possibilities held in freedom paired with connection.
Freedom from Evil
The term “collective liberation” has taken hold as we recognize the complicated and related oppressions that plague our societies. “Liberation theology” is the name of a particular theological framework for achieving collective liberation. This service will unpack some of these terms so that we might free ourselves and our world.
The Holocene Extinction
On our final Sunday exploring evil, let’s take on the big stuff!
The Root of All Evil: a sermon about capitalism, evil, and money.
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson may be our text. The author dedicated the book to his doctoral supervisor who wrote: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”
Good Grief: Embracing Grief and the Trouble with Not Doing So
We experience grief after people who are dear to us die. Yet there are pressures to quickly “get over it” and “move on.” If we succumb to the them, the suppressed response will likely return to bite us and may be transferred across generations. That’s an evil that does not serve us. We’ll look back … Continue reading Good Grief: Embracing Grief and the Trouble with Not Doing So
May Nothing Evil Cross this Door
When the hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, was published in 1993, the hymn by that title was the most sung hymn by our congregations (thus printed as the first hymn in the book). What did we mean by it when it was sung prior to 1993 and what do we mean by it now?
The Authority of Rosa Parks
Because of snow, we didn’t get to celebrate the nonviolent movement for Civil Rights in America on January 14th, so will do it this morning. The children will attend Religious Education classes after the Story for All Ages.