This Wednesday, Deri Bash will reflect upon his own Lenten practices and the seeds of hope and justice that have been placed on his heart. After the service, join us for an optional 30-minute small group conversation on the theme.

In Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, author Kazu Haga blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships. Facilitation of this group will be shared by group members.

Contact: Mary Ryan Hotchkiss

This series runs from February 5-April 15 on the 1st and 3rd Mondays. Registration deadline is Monday, February 5.

This Wednesday evening series offers an adult version of the class being offered to our middle school confirmation students, exploring how the core components of Christian faith apply to the challenges of daily life. It will run throughout the year with various presenters. Anyone 16 years of age and older is welcome to attend any single session or all of them.

In Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, author Kazu Haga blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships. Facilitation of this group will be shared by group members.

Contact: Mary Ryan Hotchkiss

This series runs from February 5-April 15 on the 1st and 3rd Mondays. Registration deadline is Monday, February 5.

Join us in person or online for a lay-led service featuring our new Contemplative Choir. Though it is a somber occasion, we hope your hearts will soar as they lead us in chant, interspersed with music, prayers, readings, and a candle-lighting ritual.

This book study will read and discuss The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine. Led by Pastor Janet Parker and Scott Shurtleff jointly for Spirit of Grace and EcoFaith Recovery, we will unpack the ongoing harm done by the Doctrine of Discovery — a set of fifteenth-century papal bulls that gave European monarchs the legal right to seize lands they "discovered" and enslave the Indigenous people they found there, all in the name of Christ. Augustine issues a powerful call to address the root causes of a religious, legal, and political legacy that continues to devastate Indigenous peoples around the globe and our planetary ecology.

Contact: Rev. Dr. Janet Parker 

This series runs on Tuesdays, February 20-March 26, from 6:30-7:45 pm on Zoom. Registration deadline is February 14.

Centering prayer is another ancient form of Christian prayer. Deepen your connection to the sacred silence.

Contact: Benneth Husted 

Our Centering Prayer group meets weekly on Friday mornings from 9:30-11 am on Zoom.

Join Director Vinci and Rachel Miller as they "Journey with Jesus." His ministry, the journey to Jerusalem, his passion and death, and his resurrection through the lens of the Gospel of Mark will be explored in these Lenten sessions.

This Wednesday evening series offers an adult version of the class being offered to our middle school confirmation students, exploring how the core components of Christian faith apply to the challenges of daily life. It will run throughout the year with various presenters. Anyone 16 years of age and older is welcome to attend any single session or all of them.

This book study will read and discuss The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine. Led by Pastor Janet Parker and Scott Shurtleff jointly for Spirit of Grace and EcoFaith Recovery, we will unpack the ongoing harm done by the Doctrine of Discovery — a set of fifteenth-century papal bulls that gave European monarchs the legal right to seize lands they "discovered" and enslave the Indigenous people they found there, all in the name of Christ. Augustine issues a powerful call to address the root causes of a religious, legal, and political legacy that continues to devastate Indigenous peoples around the globe and our planetary ecology.

Contact: Rev. Dr. Janet Parker 

This series runs on Tuesdays, February 20-March 26, from 6:30-7:45 pm on Zoom. Registration deadline is February 14.

In Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, author Kazu Haga blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships. Facilitation of this group will be shared by group members.

Contact: Mary Ryan Hotchkiss

This series runs from February 5-April 15 on the 1st and 3rd Mondays. Registration deadline is Monday, February 5.

Centering prayer is another ancient form of Christian prayer. Deepen your connection to the sacred silence.

Contact: Benneth Husted 

Our Centering Prayer group meets weekly on Friday mornings from 9:30-11 am on Zoom.

Bonnie Owens will lead this in-person Visio Divina prayer practice, an ancient form of Christian prayer in which we allow our hearts and imaginations to enter into a sacred image, in silence, to see what God might have to say to us. Silence will be followed by small-group sharing.

This prayer practice will run on Thursday afternoons, beginning February 15 to March 21.

This service is a time for our whole community to reflect on our burdens, our missteps, and often, our unknown participation in systems and institutions of oppression, and powers that bind up and hold back others. Together we embrace God’s mercy and renew our efforts to grow in hope, justice, and integrity.
                                           
The whole community is invited to a simple soup supper preceding the service at 6 pm.

This book study will read and discuss The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine. Led by Pastor Janet Parker and Scott Shurtleff jointly for Spirit of Grace and EcoFaith Recovery, we will unpack the ongoing harm done by the Doctrine of Discovery — a set of fifteenth-century papal bulls that gave European monarchs the legal right to seize lands they "discovered" and enslave the Indigenous people they found there, all in the name of Christ. Augustine issues a powerful call to address the root causes of a religious, legal, and political legacy that continues to devastate Indigenous peoples around the globe and our planetary ecology.

Contact: Rev. Dr. Janet Parker 

This series runs on Tuesdays, February 20-March 26, from 6:30-7:45 pm on Zoom. Registration deadline is February 14.

Bonnie Owens will lead this in-person Visio Divina prayer practice, an ancient form of Christian prayer in which we allow our hearts and imaginations to enter into a sacred image, in silence, to see what God might have to say to us. Silence will be followed by small-group sharing.

This prayer practice will run on Sundays, March 3-10.

Centering prayer is another ancient form of Christian prayer. Deepen your connection to the sacred silence.

Contact: Benneth Husted 

Our Centering Prayer group meets weekly on Friday mornings from 9:30-11 am on Zoom.

Join Director Vinci and Rachel Miller as they "Journey with Jesus." His ministry, the journey to Jerusalem, his passion and death, and his resurrection through the lens of the Gospel of Mark will be explored in these Lenten sessions.

This Wednesday evening series offers an adult version of the class being offered to our middle school confirmation students, exploring how the core components of Christian faith apply to the challenges of daily life. It will run throughout the year with various presenters. Anyone 16 years of age and older is welcome to attend any single session or all of them.

This book study will read and discuss The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine. Led by Pastor Janet Parker and Scott Shurtleff jointly for Spirit of Grace and EcoFaith Recovery, we will unpack the ongoing harm done by the Doctrine of Discovery — a set of fifteenth-century papal bulls that gave European monarchs the legal right to seize lands they "discovered" and enslave the Indigenous people they found there, all in the name of Christ. Augustine issues a powerful call to address the root causes of a religious, legal, and political legacy that continues to devastate Indigenous peoples around the globe and our planetary ecology.

Contact: Rev. Dr. Janet Parker 

This series runs on Tuesdays, February 20-March 26, from 6:30-7:45 pm on Zoom. Registration deadline is February 14.