Sermons

When Doug and I first started dating he was beginning an obsession with birding.  He grew up in Southern California, in an urban area, within a family that wasn’t particularly outdoorsy.   As a kid the only birds he would see with any frequency were the seagulls that stole his Read more…

February 6, 2022Luke 5:1-11, Psalm 138 by Alison Casella Brookins I’m sitting in a dim conference room. It’s a brand new room. Tiers of curved tables wrap around the speaker. Outside the room in the main hall the ceiling stretches four stories high, above the full-grown live trees whose roots Read more…

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Jo, your question raises issues I hadn’t really given thoughts to. Love and knowledge are central to our existence. But the intersections are complex because there are different types of each and requires deep exploration which we don’t have time for now. Love and knowledge are interwoven Read more…

Scripture Reading and Reflections – Max Eckard As we planned today’s service, Trevor and I thought that the model Jodie and Nelson offered last week of diving into the lectionary text with scripture readings, reflections, and a message seemed to work relatively well, and so we’re repeating it today. I’ll Read more…

Nelson Shantz Introductory points: –today: scripture readings and message as one piece — same passages for all three years…must be important material! —my engagement as I read them…theme or arc of content connecting them –gratitude to some monk long ago –I’ll read the texts –offer comments & questions that came Read more…

Good morning! Today, I’d like to talk about “Cultivating Art and Discovering Your Own Story.” If we’re Facebook friends, you probably know that I’m an artist as well as a writer. So, in addition to writing memoirs and short stories, I do all sorts of art: painting, collages, art boxes Read more…

A sermon by Eric Bettis 1 I was up late working, like I usually do on a Friday. And it was pretty productive – I had managed to get a fair amount done. The weather outside wasn’t great, and that kind of kept me focused on getting stuff done inside Read more…