Why Do Stories Survive?

NOTE: Summer Services Hours – ONE SERVICE AT 10AM . Some stories comfort us.  Others challenge us.  Still others carry both wisdom and wounds.  A single story can bring hope to one person and anguish to another.  In this service, Luke Rouker reflects on curiosity, testimony, and why human communities continue to preserve even the … Continue reading Why Do Stories Survive?

Let Them

NOTE: Summer Services Hours – ONE SERVICE AT 10AM . Mel Robbins has recently published a best-selling book called “Let Them” which promotes the idea that we can’t necessarily control other people or their thoughts. A good concept! And yet we do need to be aware of our effect upon others. How do we find … Continue reading Let Them

Civil Disobedience

The new Ken Burns documentary about Henry David Thoreau brings our attention to this transcendentalist ancestor of our faith.  What might he have to say about our current times?