Music to Live By
This service will celebrate pop & rock music in which we might find inspiration and spiritual guidance using chart toppers of various genres. The music selections include choices from members of the congregation.
Topic: Inspiring
The importance of Thinking for Ourselves
On the anniversary of Sophia Lyon Fahs’ death we contemplate her gift of teaching and writing focused on a method of experiential learning that she hoped would enable children to develop their own ideas about religion and spirituality.
There Will Be Consequences
Moral injury and the journey back to compassion.
What Dreams May Come
Sometimes our dreams to change the world change our hearts too.
The Love We Make…
Love has broader implications than just determining how we behave in our individual relationships; love is a belief that all people deserve freedom from oppression.
The Holy Nobody
In the hushed mystery of Christmas Eve we await the birth of a world at peace.
Transforming People who Transform the World
I have for many years suspected that the real reason our churches exist is to transform people who transform the world. What do we want to transform ourselves into and what do we want our world to become?
What Justice Looks Like
We want to be peacemakers and we want to work for justice, not only in our own communities, but in ever expanding circles. Often, however, it is hard to know what specific task to which we are called and how we are supposed to create change. Abigail, an overlooked figure from the Hebrew Bible, helps … Continue reading What Justice Looks Like
The Secret Six
Six men followed their principles and an unorthodox leader—and changed America forever.
The Lens of Faith
I have come to understand the religious life as looking at the world through the lens of a telescope or a microscope. Join me as I identify some of the things in my lens of faith that I find inspiring and sustaining.