Sexuality & Faith: Freedom to Choose Our Whole Lives

“What is religious about sexuality education?
“To offer sexuality education in a congregation is to acknowledge that human sexuality is simply too important, too beautiful, and too potentially dangerous to be ignored in a religious community…
Although our society is saturated with images of sex, those images are often lacking in love and mutual respect.”
What if we were to offer our children, youth, and adults “a vision more consonant with our beliefs and values, and enhance intergenerational bonding and trust?”

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Feeling the Spirit

Have you ever had an experience that filled you with something that felt sacred, holy, or meaningful beyond words? When we are filled with “the spirit,” what becomes possible in our lives, in our love, and in our work for a more just world?

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Sparks of the Bravest Fire

How can the history and culture of the LGBTQIA+ movements help us all to get in touch with our inherent worth, joy, and power to resist oppression? Join us Sunday to reflect on bravery, receive a glitter blessing, and for all who wish, to head together to the Pride festival afterwards!

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“Imagine… Healing Through Art! Art as Self, Art as Collective Experiences!”

In an increasingly dystopian world…
How can we continue to move towards Utopian+Futures (in the best sense of this term)?
Ocean Vuong encourages us to use art to “corrupt” systems of oppression,
as well as to delight for the sake of pure joy and healing.
Ava DuVernay reminds us that “your art will free someone else.”
Then… What if we allow curiosity and imagination to lead us towards liberation,
and into the liminal spaces of “already+not+yet+ and the healthy+worlds+to+be?

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Sacred Synchronicities

Has someone suddenly shown up with exactly what you need at a key moment? Has the course of your life been altered by what felt like a chance encounter? Whether we believe in a higher power or not, what meaning might coincidences – or some may say moments of grace – have in our lives?

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Fierce

“Never get between a mother and her cubs” we are told. How can we be fierce like the mama bear in our work for a more just and peaceful world? Join us this Sunday, whether your relationship with “mothering” is joyful or complicated.

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Easter Sunday: Impossible Joy

This weekend we reflect on the ancient Christian story of Easter, a story of impossible joy in the midst of hopelessness, grief, and oppression. In these times when we so desperately need our own joy renewed, what meaning might we find in this ancient holiday?

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Dancing on the Edge of Liberation

This Palm Sunday and first day of Passover, we will be reflecting on what it means to live at the thresholds of liberation—in the wilderness, at the margins, in the borderlands. Through multi-faith reflections, sacred text, singing, and the metaphor of dance, we’ll explore how movement—in grief, in protest, in hope—can be a spiritual practice of becoming.

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“In the Belly of My Brother”

When money feels tight and the future feels uncertain, it’s easy to get into a bunker mentality. Yet humanity’s survival has always been more dependent on the strength of our communities then the wealth of any individual. In frightening times like these, how can we strengthen our trust in each other?

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The Soil or the Seeds: Annual Flower Ceremony

As the season turns to spring and we celebrate our annual intergenerational Flower Ceremony, we reflect on what the garden can teach us about awakening love and justice in our hearts and in this maddening and beautiful world. All are invited to bring a flower to participate in the in-person ceremony (we’ll have extras too), wear floral prints, or have flowers with you on your zoom screen at home.

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