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Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the blossoming of love, and for many it's a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. What can you learn from this Hindu holiday?

Passover is a Jewish commemoration of liberation and a holiday as personal as your own story, and as large as the story of all humanity. What does it mean to you, and where is your "narrow place"?

Space may be the final frontier, but fund raising in a pandemic surely comes close!
Join Rev. Amy Petrie Shaw and the Stewardship Team for a look at what it takes to be good stewards of community.

Entire service video available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ESAbCGSA0

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This thoughtful talk  by Harvey Harrison explores the work of Isabel Wilkerson and her book Caste - The Origins of Our Discontent. Ms. Wilkerson uses the framework of this Caste system, deeply imbedded in our institutions and in all of us, to describe how systemic racism in our country is maintained. She uses the history and the current status of the Caste system in India, the Caste system in the United States, and the United States Caste System as it was utilized in Nazi Germany as a powerful mirror on how we continue to suppress people in our country based on the color of their skin and their perceived race.

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After being in the grip of the Coronavirus Pandemic for over a year, the vaccines have most people looking forward with anticipation and joy to the day they’ll be reunited with family and friends. But there are many millions who suffer from another pandemic for which there is no vaccine. For them, it will be, in the words of Paul McCartney, “just another day.” Please join us on this day dedicated to love to learn about the hidden pandemic of loneliness and how you can be the cure.

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The Nian was a mythological Chinese monster, who villagers fed to make sure it wouldn’t eat them. Once they found out what it feared, they never had to feed it again! What personal monsters are you feeding, and how can you love yourself into riding your own Nian? 

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As we travel life’s path, we find that its ways are never woven in a straight line – we are provided with numerous options and alternatives.  Some of these paths will lead us to joy; some to sorrow.  Still others will lead to insight and self-realization.   But life’s journey should not be spent in always contemplating what lies at the end, or in building up hopes and dreams related to some future goal.  What really matters is not the goal, or the destination, but the journey itself.  It is the journey that must be fully enjoyed at every moment. This talk is provided by guest speaker Patty Notch

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One Good Year - Resolutions or Intentions: What will we practice in the coming year?

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We honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day not because we are Jewish, but because we are human. How do we make sure that Fascism never again rises to power?

Black lives matter. Brown lives matter. All lives matter. How do we carry on the work of justice and center liberation in our lives and in our world? Sermon by Rev. Amy Petrie Shaw