12/18/2023 - Our Board has updated our Covid-19 Policy. You can find it here.
Our weekly services are streamed from the sanctuary to Zoom, with people in the sanctuary. If you are attending in person, N95/KN95 or KF94 respirator masks, covering both mouth and nose, are required in indoor spaces for anyone over the age of two. If you don't have a mask, we have a variety available at both entrances.
Please read the newsletter and check our Facebook group for regular updates about how to take part in events virtually.
Intention vs. Impact. I intend to be humorous but my sarcasm lands on the other as hurtful. I intend to be caring but others perceive me as being emotionally suffocating. What is the difference between intention and impact? You can read the sermon here.
We want to do better we really do. But dreams sometimes can be greater than our capacity. My mother used to tell me that my eyes were bigger than my stomach (a scary thought to a 5 year old). And I have found that creating an intention does not always make it so.How can we move from intention to action and use intentions to help ourselves and help others.
The new year is an arbitrary demarcation – really January 1 does not look much different from December 31. The marking of time is important to humans. How do you mark a new year what does it mean. In this service we will offer opportunities for reflection on the past year, a chance to “bury” whatever that was negative or hurtful to us in 2017, and looks forward with both hope and joy to this new year of 2018 now before us. We will let go of the old year and look forward to the new year
The tradition of the New Orleans jazz funeral began its development in the late 19th century, combining European and uniquely American musical elements with a distinctly African sensibility. It can be safely said that the custom could have arisen no where else in America, or in the world, for that matter, for nowhere else but in New Orleans where the blending and fusing of a gumbo of cultures that gave birth not only to the jazz funeral, but to jazz itself—as well as to blues, Cajun and zydeco, rhythm and blues, and even rock’n’roll.
