What's Happening
Advent Read & Suppers
Our all-parish Advent read is Gather by Octavia Raheem. Wednesdays beginning November 30 will have 5pm Evening Prayer and 5:30pm soup suppers and book discussions.
Advent Evening Prayer
5pm during Advent: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays livestreaming on Facebook; Wednesdays in the Chapel.
Wreath-Making & Market
Advent Wreath-Making Event
and Christmas Boutique on Sunday morning, November 27 in the Gym.
Advent Forum Series
“Healing Within: Spiritual Practices for All Bodies.” November 27—December 18, Sundays at 9am in the Fireside Room and on Zoom.
Christmas Drives for Hallie Q Brown
Help with donations for the Toy Shop, the Holiday Food Drive, or the Mustard Seed fund.
Coffee Hour Volunteers
Sign up to offer hospitality to your fellow parishioners by bringing coffee hour treats on an upcoming Sunday morning.
Recent Sermons
Spanning the Divide
A forewarning before I begin. This morning’s sermon discusses the issue of abortion. Because I know this difficult topic can raise intense feelings and trigger memories of past experiences and pain, I felt it was important to name it at the outset.
Prayer and Justice
We don’t pray to ourselves or to some unknown other. We pray to a God, experienced in the person of Jesus, who desires among other things, that we not lose heart. We pray to a God who can be known and experienced, a God with whom we can wrestle and against whom we can rage. We pray to a God with whom we can have a deep and intimate relationship, who seeks to be known and one with us.
Immersed with Thanksgiving in the Healing Ecosystems of God’s Creation
Just as the Prophet Elisha instructs Naaman to immerse himself seven times in the River Jordan, we too might feel as angry as Naaman when we realize that healing actually requires us to go to inconvenient places to participate in sacred rituals we might not feel like practicing. And yet, when we immerse ourselves, sometimes seven times, in healing work, we not only find ourselves becoming well, we also become agents of God’s healing for others and for our world.
