Spiritual Growth in Chaotic Times
Spiritual growth during chaotic times happens not by avoiding disruption, but by using disorientation as a catalyst for deeper reordering, reliance, and inner transformation.
Archives: Services
The Velveteen Rabbit:Fake vs Real
How do we summon the courage to be all we are created to be? How do we overcome the relentless pressure to just put on a mask and hide behind it? Let’s talk about what it means to be real in a world that too often values fake.
Drowning, While Everyone Around Us Can Breathe
We can find ourselves so alone amidst a crowd of family and friends. We wonder why we are the only ones struggling to keep our heads above a rising tide of problems, and ask why no one can see our need.
The King is Not Dead
This service intends to encourage hope and optimism for liberation and human dignity despite the fear of existential threats posed by fascism and an oppressive state
Ingathering, Water Communion and T-shirt Day
It’s our annual Ingathering, Water Communion and T-shirt Day. Please wear a T-shirt supporting a cause near and dear to you, and bring water from an event or place this past year that has meaning for you. We will each have an opportunity to add our water to the All Peoples Church waters, which has … Continue reading Ingathering, Water Communion and T-shirt Day
Radical Counterculturism
Being an effective force against injustice requires a strategic blend of systemic understanding, organized collective action, and sustained personal resilience. Justice literacy, mobilization, action, policy and legal reform, and institution building need all of our voices and gifts.
Walking Together in Different Directions
There is an ancient Jewish practice of inclusion, one that is grounded in bodily experience. Let’s explore together what can transform our individual walking into a communal act of belonging, interaction, and deep connection.ac
Breaking Down the Walls
Unity without uniformity reminds people that they are no longer strangers, but unique and valued members of a church family. How do we remove these dividing walls of age, race, class, and culture to build a stronger, more inclusive church?
Making a Bigger Table
Hospitality gets people in the door, but it’s inclusion that ensures they a sense of true belonging. Inclusion allows newcomers to share their gifts and change the culture of the church for the better.
Orpah, Where Art Thou?
Preaching from the Book of Ruth, Ruth 1:1-18: Orpah simply vanished into the mountains. Who was Orpah, and what does her absence from the Book of Ruth—the quintessential story of inclusion in the Hebrew Bible—mean to you and me? This is a sermon that will explore the outcast, forgotten, and silenced people who were once … Continue reading Orpah, Where Art Thou?