What does it mean to be grounded, when the ground below you seems to shift? How do you find center, when you’ve been blindfolded, spun around, and sent forward anyway? Why is it certain that we will always resist uncertainty?  This week Pr. Sarah reflections on the nature of transition, place, & community amidst institutional changes, … Continue reading Community, Place & Purpose: Reflections on Transition

In the Hebrew scriptures, there is a tale of a whale (or was it a fish) and a zealous prophet (but zealous for what?) that has been the topic of many a Sunday School coloring sheet, and is a common literary reference to this day: Jonah. What can this angsty, disgruntled, and reluctant prophet teach … Continue reading Oh, Jonah. . . and Other Reluctant Prophets

Grace is a loaded and profound theological concept, one that transcends religious boundaries, and leads to a general open stance towards your neighbor and to the world. It’s hard to argue that grace isn’t good! However, how does one make grace real in one’s own life? How do you move grace from a concept, to … Continue reading Operationalizing Grace: Fostering Unconditional Positive Self Regard

This week, you get to help craft the message.  Where do you get a sense of the  spirit active in the world?  What symbols of the infinite or reminders of shared humanity are all around us?  Together we will construct the message this week, with a sense of playfulness, wonder and curiosity, and walk away, perhaps seeing … Continue reading Everything is Holy Now

If you’ve ever dined with or had to cook for a picky eater, you know the combination of frustration and confusion that ensues – both from the person serving and being served. I think green curry is delicious, you turn your nose up at it. One person can drink caffeine at 9 p.m. and go … Continue reading You Are What You Eat? The Stomach-Spirit Connection

Service will be available both in-person and via Zoom. With the SCOTUS ruling this summer affecting reproductive rights, it is difficult not to wrestle with this contentious topic. How has this affected you and your family? What are you concerned for? What gives you hope? We will ground our theological conversation in experiences of women … Continue reading Why Do You Trouble the Woman?

This service will be in person and by Zoom. This Pride month, we will be reminded of the beauty in the non-binary.  How are we blessed when we are perplexed, when paradox holds the wisdom we seek?  The beauty of the in-between, of that which and whom defies categorization is all around us. This Sunday … Continue reading  The Non-Binary Bridge?

This service will be in person and by Zoom. Why do bad things happen to good people?  How do you make spiritual sense of what happened at Uvalde or what continues to unfold in Ukraine? What do different theologies say of natural disasters – of wildfires and tsunamis that wipe communities off the map?  This … Continue reading Thoughts on Theodicy

This service will be in person and by Zoom. There is a difference between discernment and decision making.  Analytics and data sets will give you one set of quantitative wisdom.  The heart/spirit/soul lends a qualitative wisdom, that may be different or difficult to describe altogether.  With all that is going on in the world, politically … Continue reading Discerning With Mystics

Since 1970, April 22nd has been set aside as a day to remember and fight for the ecological safety and future of our planet.  What has been your own journey with care of creation?  Can science and logical evidence alone bring about the collective change our planet demands?  Where do you find hope, when cynicism … Continue reading Of Earth and Family Days