Past Services

May 11, 2025: Barry Lopez writes that “the effort of the imagination is to turn the boundary into a horizon…The boundary says, Here and no further. The horizon says, Welcome.” What if […]

May 4, 2025: We once named imagination a “superpower”. Put your cape on and join us. For those participating via Zoom, you might want to have a wooden spoon ready! […]

April 27, 2025: You are invited to bring a flower to this beautiful Flower Communion. There is much to learn about joy from delicate blossoms whose seeds can sprout and blossom even on barren rock. It is as if their seeds are seeds of joy. We too have those seeds within us. […]

April 20, 2025: With this Easter Sunday and Earth Day in such close proximity, in this month that asks what joy has to do with anything and everything, we’ll let the first thousand years of Christian imagery –  not portrayals of crucifixions, but instead lush scenes depicting this world as paradise […]

April 13, 2025: adrienne maree brown notes that “pleasure is a measure of freedom” and advocates “pleasure activism” not as an escape or spiritual bypass, but as a path toward personal and collective liberation. In a similar way, Shannon Willis encourages “disobedient joy” by which […]

April 6, 2025: Really, how do “they” expect us to feel our joy right now? Is it even okay to feel joy with what we are going through? Well, let’s look more deeply. Some say underneath everything Joy waits as a patient foundation of our being, sometimes covered with woe, […]

March 30, 2025: In a review, Marilynne Robinson claimed both that “It is trust that knits up the world,” and also that trust “is a stuff peculiarly liable to fraying and raveling.” This is the often tender nature of the world and our relationships. We end our month with an invitation to hold this truth with care, and to live accordingly. […]

March 23, 2025: We gather just after the Spring equinox, as the light begins to overturn the looming darkness. Trusting in this season of renewal, we’ll explore through ritual, words, and song what in us is called to emerge. […]

March 16, 2025: Why be, and be part of, a religious, values-centered community these days? And how? Steeped in vital questions about various freedoms and who makes decisions, our religious ancestors came up with their own answers through a series of cottage […]

March 9, 2025: The current frantic attempts to dismantle democracy are challenging many people’s sense of trust and hope in the future. Surprisingly, for some it’s not a lack of hope that is the issue, it’s the fear of holding hope, hope that might be dashed or disappointed, a fate […]