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Improvising a Life

Creativity is critical in all aspects of our lives, even those we don’t think of as needing creativity. We’ll explore life as an improvisation.

Religious Explorations Celebration!

Come along and celebrate a great year for Religious Explorations!

This is a morning of full community worship. Nursery is provided for those ages 4 and under. No Religious Exploration classes. Come celebrate all of our Religious Explorations!

Creating the Past, Envisioning the Future

The past isn’t something that exists objectively. Every story we tell about events demands that we pick and choose among details and story lines, whose voices are heard and what is left out. How might we create a past that opens the future in new ways?

Creative Tension

Although sometimes hard to hold, discord and discomfort can serve as mentors on the path to new and better ways of being.

Mise En Place

Mise en place is a French culinary term for putting things in place. It is the idea of getting everything in order before you begin to cook. Mise en place can begin weeks before a meal is served. Mise en place is also a philosophy that can be applied to getting life in order. This sermon will explore that deeper mise en place for each of us – how we make sure everything is in order and in place inside us so that we are ready and able to deal with all that life brings to our kitchen.

For Blessings to Emerge

We all look forward to the vibrant rebirth of a hopeful spring. But as winter begins to slowly loosen her grip, let’s pause one last time to reflect upon the hidden blessings that can only be found in the quieter seasons of life.

Creative Maladjustment: An Invitation

In 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said, “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” Today, as then, we would do well to heed his words and continue to be maladjusted to poverty, racism, and violence.

Risk Joy

Mary Oliver reminds us: “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends upon it, and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” Living at all requires us to take a risk, loving demands our hearts be vulnerable. One message of Easter is about risking it all and finding life even so. We’ll consider what emerges when we are willing to risk.

Not My Table, Hon: Finding *Our* Work

What is it we are called to do? It’s often hard to discern what we’re meant to be doing and what isn’t ours to pick up. Do you have difficulty saying no? Or saying yes? We’ll consider the art of discernment in finding what our own work is in the world.