This Sunday, Gena Wade will lead our service with a sermon for Stewardship Sunday. We can take the idea of “paying attention” (our March service theme) and turn it many directions, to see what light gets reflected back from a different facet.  Each of these ways of paying attention poses a specific question for us … Continued

This Sunday, we will hear the sermon “Presence as a Portal to Possibility,” by Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman.  Scott-Huffman writes, “When we treat presence as a task to be completed, another box to check on the endless list of vocational duties or family obligations, it feels impossible. It feels like trying to meditate in the middle … Continued

For our Purim observance this Sunday, families and friends are invited to gather in the Church of the Ascension kitchen at 9 AM to make hamantaschen, the traditional three‑cornered Purim cookies. Then Rabbi Gail Fisher will lead us in a lively, family‑friendly Purim service featuring singing, children’s crafts and a puppet show telling the story of Purim.  We’ll share … Continued

When dehumanizing rhetoric and shouting in the public sphere threaten to drown out all else, what can we do to protect our inner spirit and our capacity to keep our senses and our souls open to life’s beauty and the better world we imagine and long for? Jackie Triplett will present “Sacred Imagination,” a sermon … Continued

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This week kicks off our new monthly theme: Paying Attention.  Gena Wade will lead our service and share a sermon about two aspects of attention: its definite limits for every individual, and its nature as a precious and powerful resource.  At its heart, attention is finite—and holy in its capacity to transform each of us. Remote attendees, join … Continued

This week, Debs Szymkowiak will lead our service and share the sermon How We Come Back: Stories of Resilience, by Rev. Ellen Quaadgras. Rev Quaadgras says, “I sometimes think that as much as we want to help pull people out of the negative spaces they are in, much as we want to point them to the … Continued

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In our annual observance of Evolution Sunday (the Sunday closest to the birthday of Charles Darwin), we will hear from long-time member Judy Osborn with her sermon Everything Evolves. Judy says, “Darwinian ideas of evolution have been accepted for over 150 years.  Much more is now known about genes and their interactions with each other … Continued

This Sunday, Gena Wade will share her sermon Practicing Resistance and Resilience. We will reflect on what makes resistance challenging, what we can do to overcome the barriers, and how thinking about resilience helps.  Remote attendees, join at the link below. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A NEW LINK FOR 2026. https://zoom.us/j/93005285647?pwd=Jam09KvgEh1yjBzVLVISUYDlN9P8oZ.1 Meeting ID: 930 … Continued