This sermon will ask how we respond to the unrelenting cascade of bad news. While outrage is justified and can bring a brief spike in commitment and action, it can’t last. Love is a much more sustainable fuel source for the human spirit and can lead to long term community building and transformation.

This service explores the theological depth and radical kindness of Mr. Rogers. We’ll explore the power of being seen and receiving the reminder that we are worthy of love, just exactly for who we are.

This week we’ll celebrate Earth Day and appreciate our interdependence: This service will explore the interconnectedness of social justice, environmental stewardship and spiritual sustenance through reflections on poetry, activism and the healing power of beauty.

Continuing our Lenten Series this reflective service explores themes of hope, vulnerability, spirituality, meaning and justice. Using a story about a mid-March storm, we’ll look together for personal renewal during Lent, finding it in the everyday sacred.

This service will explore how we are called to show up now, if love is at the center of our shared faith and we are love’s hands in the world. How do we show up in our community? How do we show up for each other and the people we love?

This service will examine the dual truth that we all carry pain and that we are all survivors. Looking at the remarkable resilience of the human psyche, we will celebrate our strength, our compassion and our willingness to reach out to help others even as we carry our own grief.

Mark has internalized lessons about Beloved Community spending summers at overnight camps from the age of 6 until 23. During those summers, Mark developed a love of the outdoors and a deeply felt sense of our interconnectedness with each other and Earth and Universe. Grounded in this belief that separateness is the illusion, Mark invites … Continue reading Beloved Community

Beginning our observance of advent, this service will be the first in a 4 week series that explores resilience and resistance. What else is the Christmas story, but a statement that love eternal is born in the dark and the cold, that Emmanuel cloaks during long nights of worry and fear. Our faith calls us … Continue reading Beginning Our Observation of Advent