The Ultimate Goal
The ultimate goal of our gratitude is generosity. Return from your Thanksgiving tables for an untraditional service of music and meditation with Rev. Kim and Director of Music Ministry, Dr. Erin Busch.
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The Patience of Ordinary Things
We gather this Sunday, as a multigenerational community, in praise of our earth teacher, the pumpkin seed! What does this small, ordinary thing have to teach us about life, living, authenticity and generosity? Our incredible choir will sing us into Thanksgiving. Directly following the service, Ministerial Intern, Lisa Schilansky will be leading a Transgender Day of … Continue reading The Patience of Ordinary Things
Resisting the Miracle
Join Rev. Kim as we deepen our conversation on generosity, pumpkin seeds, and the abundance of life despite it all. Guest musician Dan Espie returns for this joys and sorrows service. This service will also feature inspiring music from guest pianist, Daniel Espie. Read more about Daniel here.
The Hardest Thank You
What does it mean to be wholly, undeniably, generous to ourselves when the world is telling us not to be? How can caring for ourselves be the most radical act of all? Join ministerial intern Lisa Schilansky as she explores these questions and others as we kick off our month focused on generosity.
In the Days of Their Flesh
We gather once again for our annual All Souls service: a day of remembering, honoring, and remembering forward. This service will also feature special music by the Crossing Chorale, and Simon Couchoud on oboe and English horn.
On What is Real and Who Gets to Decide
In 2018 Barbara Jensen underwent massive surgery to have a brain tumor removed. Her healing journey has been scientific and explorative. Through this auction-won sermon, Rev. Kim responds to what healing “works” and who gets to decide.
Messy, Marvelous Multiplicities
Who are we? How are we shaped in our lives today and from our past? This Sunday our intern minister, Lisa Schilansky, invites us to consider the many pieces of ourselves that we bring with us each time we gather. This service will also feature special music from the Crossing Chorale, with soloist Rachael Evans.
Helping Each Other Love Each Other Well: Sexual Ethics as a Community Conversation
Jon Carl Lewis offers an invitation and a challenge to communities of faith to engage in imaginative, visionary dialogue that empowers, encourages, and celebrates their members so that they can make individual sexual and relational choices that are appropriate for them, life giving in their particular context, and which bear good fruit for the flourishing … Continue reading Helping Each Other Love Each Other Well: Sexual Ethics as a Community Conversation
Remembering Forward
This Sunday, Rev. Kim invites us to begin our conversation and practice around October’s theme of Heritage.
Welding the Third Space: A Joys & Sorrows Service
As we continue to explore this month’s theme of Welcome, we also turn to this month’s earth teacher, Water, to guide us in the paradox of life and living. Megnot Toggia, soprano, returns for this service as our special guest musician! Soprano Megnot Toggia graduated with her M.M. in Voice Performance from Temple University’s Boyer … Continue reading Welding the Third Space: A Joys & Sorrows Service