Team Oscar

It’s a hybrid weekend for Team Oscar!  Watch at your leisure at home:  Being the Ricardos: available on Amazon Prime or Roku) Encanto: Available on Disney+ Or hit the Michigan Theater for one of the Oscar Nominated Shorts: 2022 Oscar Nominated Live Action...

Update on Paul Whelan

Dear Friends, I just received this news from Paul Whelan’s mom: The USPS halted its international mail services to Russia on March 11. The agency said it had suspended certain services “due to unavailable transportation as a result of widespread...

Sermon Lent 2C 2022

Readings for the Second Sunday in Lent: Genesis 15:1-12,17-18, Philippians 3:17-4:1, Luke 13:31-35, Psalm 27 The children’s ministry program at Grace Church in St. Helena, CA, where I served before coming here, is a little like Godly Play, which you all have had here...

Return to the Rail

Beginning this Sunday (March 13) we will resume our tradition of gathering around the altar to receive communion! For many people, this tradition has been sorely missed over the past 2 years, and we’re thrilled to bring it back. Communion will be brought to...

Homework!

In last week’s sermon, I gave some optional homework: “Consider taking some time to dwell on some of those essential, defining stories from your life of faith, and from your ancestors, your family, your community. How do those stories shape who you are today, how you...