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All-Ages Family Game Night
Wednesday, July 31 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Gather with other families, play and share a meal before the chaos of school activities start up again.
Bible Study with Art
Engage with the Scriptures through art, 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 10am on Zoom.
Big Wonder Scholarship Fund
Support justice in child care by helping local children attend summer camp!
Garden Conversations: Deepening Friendships
11:30 in the Holly Garden every other Saturday starting June 16.
Pups ‘n’ Cups
Love dogs? Help host Pups ‘n’ Cups, Wednesdays at 4:45pm in the Holly Garden!
Coffee Hour Volunteers
Sign up to offer hospitality to your fellow parishioners by bringing coffee hour treats on an upcoming Sunday morning.
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Recent Sermons
Biomimetic Belonging: Cooperating with God’s Sprigs and Seeds of Trust
“Thankfully, we are slowly turning back to seeing existence as an ecosystem in which diverse organisms and species cooperate so that everything in creation can both survive and thrive together. Instead of a competitive mindset of extraction from the natural world, Biomimicry shows us how we can cooperate with and learn from creation. I would argue, based on this morning’s scriptures, that Ezekiel and Jesus are proponents of a biomimetic theology.”
Holy Transitions: Tarrying with God through the In-Between Times
“In her book, Tarry Awhile: Wisdom from Black Spirituality for People of Faith, African Caribbean Theologian Dr. Selina Stone explains that Tarrying ‘is a collective time of waiting on God… It is a time of surrender to God, in the hope of personal and communal transformation. It is also a moment for intercession, for bringing our spiritual needs to God as well as our loving concern for our neighbors and the world.’ I think we can agree that to face this world’s overwhelming destruction of human lives and of creation, tarrying together as a spiritual practice in community is an absolute necessity.”
Come, Eat, Taste Again Your Salvation
“The gospel of Luke bounces from table to table, meal to meal, and while the details are omitted, I cannot help filling them in with my imagination. You can smell the smoke from the fish. Candlelight reflects off the slick oil in a bowl on the table. Bread is broken. There is wine in cups.
Why did Luke take such pains to include food at every turn in his gospel? Luke wants us to know that this Jesus is the same Jesus who died, who was buried, who has returned—changed yes, but still the same, wounded, hungry, and yearning to be with his people.”
