Experience the Holy

There is no power equal to a community discovering what it cares about . . . Margaret Wheatley EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLY During November the Board of Trustees will be holding a series of workshops asking – What timeless, transcendent qualities of our religious community...

Sermon: The Hubris of Discovery (audio & text)

Rev. Mark Ward There are scripts that run unquestioned through our cultural memory, and one of those is discovery: the idea that Europeans had dispensation to murder, oppress and uproot peoples in North America and elsewhere for their own benefit. What might be the...

Naming Our Center

One of the things that we celebrate as a congregation and as a religious movement is that we affirm no creed or doctrine that we believe encompasses religious truth. The living tradition in which we stand honors many sources of religious understanding, but we...

Too Many Notes

by Dr. Linda Topp, Director of Administration This title will be an obvious reference to anyone who’s seen the movie, Amadeus.  However, since the movie came out in 1984 (good grief!), perhaps a little review is necessary. In the movie, Emperor Joseph II has...