How hard it is to be with someone, even, and perhaps especially ourselves, when they are in pain, and we can do nothing about it. But given that we all hurt sometimes, and healing often takes time, what are we to do in the meantime?

Forgiveness is such a fraught notion. Immediately, most of us think of the person who has most wronged us. Yet, religiously, there is something about naming and accepting our own imperfection.

Sometimes we’re called to give our all, and sometimes we’re called to learn to live with the way things are. Surrender doesn’t have to mean failure, sometimes it just means wisdom.

This is a busy time of year, with graduations, weddings, travel, and many other obligations. It can be hard to find the path to simplicity–the theme for this month. In this special service led by your team of Worship Associates, we explore the ways in which our five senses can be the doorways through which we can find simplicity and joy.

Rev. Wendy Williams, Senior Minister, Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sometimes simplicity is banded about as another thing we ‘should’ achieve. Is it is always helpful or possible?

Presented by Emily Conger, Intern Minster, Sunday, May 29, 2016

Using Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker’s poem of the same title, we will explore our connectedness and the call to bless the world.

Presented by Rev. Wendy Williams, Senior Minister, Sunday, June 5, 2016

We live busy overstuffed lives that require attention to and coordination of multiple details and schedules. As summer months begins, we might recall the wisdom of our religious ancestors like Henry David Thoreau who wrote (nearly 200 years ago), “As for complex ways of living, I love them not, no matter how much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.”

Graduations are celebrated at Commencements, which is, of course, more about beginning than ending. How are our new beginnings a blessing? What makes them so?