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GUEST SPEAKER | Greg Epstein

March 2 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Worship

Offered every Sunday at 10 a.m. from September through June, weekly services feature timely, thought-provoking sermons, stirring choral and instrumental music, and a high level of participation from parishioners. Each Sunday a parishioner leads a portion of the service and delivers a pastoral prayer.

The month’s services are often built around a central theme, and some Sundays include communion. Each service includes time for both spoken and silent meditation and prayer. Flowers may be given by members of the congregation in memory of a loved one. The Director of Religious Education offers a Time for All Ages reflection, providing children with a transition to their church school class. (Learn more in ‘Children, Youth & Families.’)

Special services throughout the year include Winter Solstice, Christmas Eve, Easter, and a spring coffee house hour of music. Guest ministers occasionally lead worship.

Our members and friends come to church on Sunday for many reasons: they seek a place for spiritual and intellectual contemplation, a place to find community, a diversity of backgrounds and beliefs, a space in which to celebrate joys, cope with loss, marvel at the world, and laugh together.

Worship Themes

Every summer, our worship team develops themes for the upcoming year to guide our Sunday morning services. Below are the planned themes for this church year, as well as those from past years. 

Worship Themes (2024-25)

September – Seeking…
October – Ritual
November – The Stories We Tell
December – Dazzling Darkness
January – Building Bridges
February – Living the Questions
March – Ways to Pray
April – Revolutionary Love
May & June – Queering Faith

Worship Themes (2023-24)

September –  The Gift of Welcome
October –  Meaning & Mortality
November –  Living Well
December –  How to Be Human
January –  Dreams, Visions, Callings
February & March –  The Art of Repair
April –  Thriving in Community
May & June –  Play!

Worship Themes (2022-23)

September –  Coming Together
October –  The Fullness of Time
November –  Simple Gifts
December –  Enfleshed
January –  The Growing Edge
February –  Love is a Verb
March & April –  Dwelling Places
May & June –  Sacred Nature