(Water Communion Service) This year, we use this day to celebrate the interdependent web of which we are all a part. Connected to one another by the elements of the earth, we will offer a symbolic act to rejoice in our sacred community. We will connect with each other, as well as those in our…
This Sunday we will explore the concept of Justice, how it has “evolved” over the course of history, and how we are currently on the sill of another major step forward–if we are up to taking it. (By Bernie Nebel, member of Channing Memorial Church)
The poet Sappho writes, “I want to say something but shame / prevents me // yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things / and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, / shame would not hold down your eyes / but rather you would speak about what is just.”This…
Just as flowers emerge from rocky soil, so often does beauty emerge from hardship. We take this time to gather to celebrate this beauty and acknowledge the work that makes it so. Today we create and celebrate a bouquet of flowers unlike any other, lifting up the beauty of diversity and the inherent worth in…