Category: Sermons

This Sunday, we’ll explore how gratitude can be a radical, restorative force in a broken world.

Gratitude is a foundational spiritual practice that connects us to joy and is associated with resilience. However, gratitude can be complicated too–it can be accompanied by guilt, or serve as a form of denial, or veer into toxic positivity. This Sunday we will explore all the facets of gratitude before returning to where we started–that…

Gratitude, Acceptance & Release by Reverend Dr. Teresa Cooley

The Six Pillars of Gratitude, By Rev. Jenny Amstutz

Living Our Values: Compassion and Equity by Jessica Dunn Safonof

I knew directly after the election when some folks were talking about building bridges and understanding the other side that strategically and spiritually this was the right way to go—or would be. I also knew I couldn’t go there in that moment. But right now, compassion and a different kind of role for us as…

Description: Sometimes compassion flows naturally, but sometimes it’s difficult to love others. How do we love people who are “not of our tribe”? The 14th Dali Llama proposed a radical type of compassion, which might serve as a starting point.