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Imagine hearing for the first time that you are blessed when all you have ever been told is the opposite. Today’s reading is a blessing and a challenge to enter into a deepening of relationships with one another, with our communities, with the needy, and with God.

And what’s that thing, you ask? Come (and follow) and find out!

When reality defies all expectations, what are we to do? Just dive right in. Embrace it just as we are embraced, of course!

It’s Epiphany and we are all asking ourselves what it is we are searching for this year. Like the Magi know, the path to discovering what we are seeking is often complicated and really freaking hard at times. And yet! There is hope…

this week in Advent we find ourselves alongside Joseph as we journey toward love. His journey toward love is a complicated, messy path involving the work of self love, acceptance and grace.

When Mary sings her song of praise, it is a song of JOY in the face of Empire. It’s also a song of invitation to us all.

This second week of Advent asks us to embark on a journey toward Peace. What wisdom can we find in the words of the prophet Isaiah in our time, when peace seems so hard to come by?

What if we treated thanksgiving as something in action and not like something that just sits independent of anything else around it?

Ruth teaches us that we are so much more than our past or our present when we allow our hearts and minds to be open to the workings of God and the Spirit.

Join us for this time of celebrating and remembering the saints of the church and the saints of our community on this All Saints Sunday.

Our final installment of our Holy Ghost Stories series takes us into a secluded room where suddenly all you-know-what breaks loose!

For the second installment of our Holy Ghost Stories series. Join us as we hear about The Man on the Water and ask ourselves who is the voice calling to *us* on the sea.

Spooky season is here, and we New Englanders do love our autumn celebrations! Did you know that our scriptures are filled with ghost stories? Holy Ghost stories, of course!

For everyone born. A place at the table. Hear a message on bread, bodies, church, and how we are all connected on this World Communion Sunday.

In this final installment of our series on Holy Resistance, we hear about the disciples called before the Sadducees in Acts. We, the church, are called to be like the disciples John and Peter. To speak loudly about the injustices of the world today, and to not stop speaking even (especially?) when it makes those in power nervous.

Here we are in the third week of our series on "Stories of Holy Resistance." Which is why Vashti’s story is one that needs to be told, and how brave she was to stand up to a system of power that was seeking to remove her value as a human being.

Shiphrah and Puah and their brave yet simple moment of resistance - their refusal to participate in something they new was wrong - put into motion something so much bigger that would ultimately result in the liberation of a whole people.

Week 1 of stories of holy resistance in our texts. The Syrophoenician woman wouldn’t take no for an answer. Even from Jesus.

The rich, young ruler was told to deal with his stuff. What sort of stuff are we carrying around and why do we - as Jesus-followers - really need to sort it out?

There is indeed a lot in this message to the disciples that seems to be counter-intuitive to the Jesus way. But what if it’s really a message encouraging us to not be afraid of the fire but embrace it?

Yes, God’s got our back BUT it’s is not enough to simply know it or tell people that. We have to live it. In everything we do.

Christ is all and in all. That means you, too! When the world is desperate for healing, the work of making things whole needs to start with our own selves.

Sometimes we forget that being church means not just claiming the title “Christian,” but also co tiny if to grow our faith by asking questions and seeking answers. Growing in faith and practice means inspecting and questioning how our sacred texts allow us to encounter and discern God’s presence in our practices AS a church, AS a people called Christian.

Sometimes the Spirit moves in the most unlikely of places - and leads us to have serious conversations about faith and belief. When is the last time any of us took a moment to sit with the Spirit and think about the question, “Who is Christ to me?”

These letters of Paul - or maybe-Paul - have provided so much foundation for our modern church’s practices and beliefs. For better or for worse, y’all. So let’s dig into Paul’s letter to Colossians, because And like anything built on a foundation, it’s good to inspect what is holding us up. What *is* providing the connection that grounds us, both as a modern church and as a people inheriting an an...