Rooted in Love
As we seek to become a community that is better and stronger together, we begin to understand the importance of living in circles, not rows, for spiritual, physical, and emotional growth, both personally and communally.
Topic: Journey
In Search Of…
Often we seek out existing communities that align with our faith traditions, values, interests and hobbies, or generation. Building community works differently and can involve starting special interest groups like book clubs, hiking groups, game nights, garden clubs, and other activities that bring people together around a shared interest. Let’s talk about how that can … Continue reading In Search Of…
The Church’s One Foundation
The Church, in its many forms, has both struggled and flourished across history. What our forgetful hearts must remember is that love is the Church’s one foundation. As a people who base all words and actions on love we need to hear our foundational covenant again and again if we are to ever make our … Continue reading The Church’s One Foundation
When Trusting Your Curiosity Leads to Dancing
When we get mired down in the demands and struggles of life, it can become easy to stifle our curiosity and live life on the surface, rarely going deeper. In this sermon, I explore a well-known New Testament parable and find there an invitation to follow our quest for adventure, to seek knowledge from all … Continue reading When Trusting Your Curiosity Leads to Dancing
Trusting the Love That Guides Us
The world has lost its way. It is so clear to see chaos, hate, and greed growing rapidly, while fear among marginalized populations rises to critical levels. Can we really protect others and transform lives with just our love?
Troubling the Waters
In this moment in the history of the world and of the church, we are being asked to examine how the way we do things is pushing back against a dominant culture of scarcity and oppression or simply replicating that culture in our communities of faith. For this reason we must ask whether our community … Continue reading Troubling the Waters
An Act of Gratitude
Acts of gratitude happen all around us, even when we aren’t seeing them. It can be how we welcome someone into the church kitchen, building maintenance, onto the board, or even into our worship service. We can show our gratitude through acts of inclusive, loving, kindness to others. Lets talk about ways we can open … Continue reading An Act of Gratitude
Whither Men in America?
In the 1970s and 1980s, the women’s movement was supported by a movement of men who wished to get in touch with their feelings and become more compassionate. Four decades later, while the women’s movement has made great strides, the men’s movement has largely faded from consciousness. To fill that vacuum, many young American men … Continue reading Whither Men in America?
On Slowing Down
Moving through each day can feel like we are racing against the clock. Are we missing opportunities to enrich our lives and the lives of others by being too focused on day to day things? What might we see when we slow down and look away from our own path?
Picking Up the Costume Pieces
What I love about children is their unbridled capacity to be silly and laugh at the absurdity of life. It takes me back to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s quote in The Little Prince, “All grown-ups were once children…but only few of them remember it.” The world chips away at us as we grow, leaving fragments of … Continue reading Picking Up the Costume Pieces