Come sing a song with me… We sang together on our patio on Sunday morning, as a congregation, for the first time in 2 years! What a beautiful, salvific moment. I definitely cried as I looked around at all your faces and heard all your voices and watched all your bodies move together. Anthropologists and…

Critical Race Theory is being attacked and turned into a “bogeyman”– in other words, something it is not in order to cause fear and division. Privileged white people are demanding they not be made to feel guilty or uncomfortable, with no regard to the suffering of others. Books are being banned, even burned, in an…

It’s the community’s job to figure out how we can stretch into the so-called margins to broaden our understanding and the ability to be inclusive. Inclusivity is not ‘how do we make you a part of what we are?’ but ‘how do we become more of what you are?’ —angel Kyodo williams Sensei I love…

“Widening the Circle” is our February worship and programming theme. What comes to your mind when you read the words “widening the circle”? Do you think of letting other people in? What other people? People who are different? How are they different? Is this “different” based solely on skin color? Can you think beyond skin…

Intentions live in our imaginations. We live in a world imagined by our ancestors. It’s a complex, interconnected, wild world (like a swamp!) with underlying patterns and processes that support the one thing constant in this universe– change. As humans, we have the ability to consciously create change, adapt to change, be the change. We…

All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be. – Brené Brown I read this line about a year or so ago in one of Brene…