The link for this Sunday’s Worship service is  HERE

Even as we navigate the daily uncertainties of pandemic life, we are bound by threads of grief and gratitude connecting across our physical isolation. Drawing lessons from our history and our ancestors, Andrew’s words and music help us reaffirm our empathy and our strength during our time of turning and metamorphosis.

Your loved ones are always welcome to join our service. 

… Continue reading “Beyond These Walls, Beyond These Broken Hearts”

With the explosion of DNA testing for exploring genealogy and ethnicity, it seems more people than ever are devoting time and energy to answering the fundamental questions, “who am I and where did I come from?” Each of us descends from a wide web of humans, with their own powers, limitations and a life filled with their own stories. And while most of them are no longer here to tell them to us, their stories are a vital part of how we got here.

… Continue reading “Treasures in Our Chests” Special Music Service

We build skyscraper forts out of the labels we use to characterize “others,” and hurl epithets and worse at “them.” Yet we are all members of the same species, live on the same planet, and have the same basic biological needs. How do we reconcile the immense barriers we’ve created between individual subsets of us and them with the basic facts of our earthly human existence?

Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade.

… Continue reading There Is No “Them” There

Musical Service: It seems more people than ever are devoting time and energy to answering the fundamental questions, “who am I and where did I come from?” While our present-day relationships with family may run the gamut from complicated to painful, the fact that any of us exist at all is might be also be viewed as a mysterious miracle. An appreciation for the stories doubly-twisted into every cell of our being, and the odd and eclectic collection of saints and rogues who helped create them.

… Continue reading The Gift in Our Genes