January Worship Series: The Quest for Truth

 

Each week in the words of our covenant, we affirm the quest for truth is our  sacrament. What is sacred or transcendent about the journey to discern, discover, uncover, and recover truth in our lives? Where has the search for truth brought you in your spiritual journey, and where are you headed next? Join Rev. Rebecca as she returns from her sabbatical on a four-part worship series to explore how the quest for truth makes a difference in our lives and our life together.

 

January 31 Sermon: True or False

 

The physicist Niels Bohr tells us “The opposite of a fact is a falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.” Where does paradox belong on our spiritual journey?

January Worship Series: The Quest for Truth

 

Each week in the words of our covenant, we affirm the quest for truth is our  sacrament. What is sacred or transcendent about the journey to discern, discover, uncover, and recover truth in our lives? Where has the search for truth brought you in your spiritual journey, and where are you headed next? Join Rev. Rebecca as she returns from her sabbatical on a four-part worship series to explore how the quest for truth makes a difference in our lives and our life together.

 

January 24 Sermon: True Sight

 

When you are up on the mountaintop, you have a different perspective than those on the ground. 

 

January Worship Series: The Quest for Truth

 

Each week in the words of our covenant, we affirm the quest for truth is our  sacrament. What is sacred or transcendent about the journey to discern, discover, uncover, and recover truth in our lives? Where has the search for truth brought you in your spiritual journey, and where are you headed next? Join Rev. Rebecca as she returns from her sabbatical on a four-part worship series to explore how the quest for truth makes a difference in our lives and our life together.

 

January 17 Sermon: A Stone of Hope: MLK Sunday

 

How can we carve a stone of hope from the mountain of despair that is the lived reality of white supremacy in our country? 

January Worship Series: The Quest for Truth

 

Each week in the words of our covenant, we affirm the quest for truth is our  sacrament. What is sacred or transcendent about the journey to discern, discover, uncover, and recover truth in our lives? Where has the search for truth brought you in your spiritual journey, and where are you headed next? Join Rev. Rebecca as she returns from her sabbatical with a four-part worship series to explore how the quest for truth makes a difference in our lives and our life together.

 

January 10 Sermon - First Things

 

The poet Philip Levine wrote, “Some things / you know all your life. They are so  simple and true / they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme / they must be laid out on the table beside the salt-shaker, the glass of water…” Join us as we  welcome Rev. Rebecca home and return to the simple truth of spiritual growth, giving, service to others, and walking together into the new year.

 

Whatever the outcome of the UN climate change conference in Paris—and it doesn’t appear that the agreement will be close to sufficient to limit the rise of temperature to 1.5-2.0 degrees Celsius—people around the world will still have to mobilize in great numbers to put pressure on their governments to drastically limit the amount of carbon released into the air.

In the film This Changes Everything (2015, directed by Avi Lewis) based on Naomi Klein’s bestselling book of the same title, Klein presents portraits of seven communities on five continents struggling with the consequences of climate change.  She connects the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there and concludes that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

On January 10 the Peace and Social Justice Committee will screen the film in the Sanctuary at 7:30 after Second Sunday Supper.  It is 90 minutes long and we will have a discussion afterward.  We hope you will join us!