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What does the future of church look like? What can we learn from our recent challenges that help us to face a different future? The worship theme for May is “Pluralism”.
What does the future of church look like? What can we learn from our recent challenges that help us to face a different future? The worship theme for May is “Pluralism”.
Last week we celebrated the Religious Exploration program and what it promotes. I’d like to talk a bit more about a theory of why religious exploration is important for all of us, not just the young ones. The worship theme for May is “Pluralism”.
As we launch our Stewardship Campaign to ask for your commitments to the next church year, we will explore the values we are asking you to invest in, and what coming together as a community can look like. The worship theme for April is “Interdependence”.
The Easter story is often told in the Christian tradition as the story of bodily resurrection. But the oldest gospel, the Gospel of Mark, leaves us with just the empty tomb. What can resurrection mean in the spiritual sense? The worship theme for March is “Transformation”.
Is unconditional love really possible? What would it mean to approach the world in which people are so capable of doing hurtful things with an open heart? The worship theme for March is “Transformation”.
The worship theme for February is “Justice & Equity”.
One of the goals of this first year of developmental ministry is to deepen the connections between one another. One of the best ways to do that is to share our stories with one another. We have our individual stories and our congregational stories – all of which are important. Can we also be co-creators … Continue reading Does the Story Have an Ending?
We often think of change as something that is linear: we go from here to there in a straight line. Actually our experience of change goes in cycles in which we have to come to terms with what we’ve lost before we can embrace what’s new. Drawing on the wisdom of William Bridges we will … Continue reading Cycles of Growth & Change
We all live somewhere in the spectrum between health and illness, yet we often treat them as though they are complete states: either / or. Can we find renewal no matter where we are on the spectrum? The worship theme for January is “Liberating Love”.
Come celebrate the season together – with carols, contemplation, and candlelight. The worship theme for December is “Mystery”.