Sermon Easter Sunday

Every Tuesday morning, our family, which is me and my husband Myles and my 2 year old Isaiah, has a very important vigil. We generally talk about it the night before when we prepare for it, and so it’s on our minds when we wake up. We spend the morning listening very...

Wine with Communion at the 8:30 Service

You may have seen that we are now permitted by our diocesan guidelines to share wine at communion. The task force appointed to reflect and give recommendations on the matter suggests that each congregation take some time to consider their particular context, theology,...

Easter Joy!

Invite your friends to join in Easter joy! We can all use an invitation to a joyful celebration of hope and new life this year. It’s really easy to invite a friend to join us: Send them a Facebook invitation to our Easter service! [https://fb.me/e/4po7h23uX ]...

Sermon Lent 4C 2022

It’s Oscars day, and it’s Lent, so in the spirit of confession, I’m going to tell you something about myself- I have terrible taste in movies. That’s not even a totally accurate way to say it- I actually love movies that are terrible. It has been an embarrassingly...

Sermon Lent 3C 2022

There’s this concept in Montessori and other similar educational philosophies called “false fatigue” that I think about a lot. Basically, at least as I learned about it in regard to religious environments for children, the idea is that a child enters a room [describe...

Carolyn’s Faith Journey

Carolyn Sampselle contributed another moving response to the “homework” from my sermon on March 6: “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...