The Annual Pledge Campaign (APC) is happening now! A Pledge Connector will be visiting your group or team to lead a short discussion and make sure you know how important your response is.
For more information, check out the APC webpage. On that page you’ll find links to the pledge form (for those making a financial promise) and an update form (for those not making a financial pledge).
In these difficult and demanding times, our spirit of generosity needs to be carefully cultivated and nurtured. How do we sustain our sense of personal generosity—in whatever ways we give—when we’re suffering from giving fatigue? The source of a generous spirit and heart lies in being generous with ourselves.
“Story” is one of the more powerful tools we humans use in building relationship, culture and community. We’re told stories and we tell stories—to learn, to connect, to remember. In our families, our elders may not have had the time or desire to sit us down and relate their story to us, chapter and verse. But do we somehow absorb and carry on their story anyway? However it happens, the stories we pick up from those … Continue reading The Power of Generational Story
Each Sunday morning during service, we profess that we “search for truth with an open mind.” But—as individual practitioners of our 4th principle— where do we look for it? Many “truths” we’ve embraced in the past no longer make sense to us. And the future only hints at “truths” yet to unfold. Truth—as shape-shifting and … Continue reading Searching For Simple Truths
