The Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Planter of Trees and Justice The Rev Dr Mark Y.A. Davies, leading YOU MAY DOWNLOAD THE MORNING PROGRAM HERE later in the week. Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya led a movement to restore the forests of Kenya for the sake of the environment and the economic well-being of … Continue reading The Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Planter of Trees and Justice
Download the Morning Program HERE. Or you may read it below without having to download it. This morning for our fourth Peace Sunday we continue this special series based on the book Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World by Ken Beller and Heather Chase. Our Peace Sunday candidates this month are people we … Continue reading Peace Sunday #4 – Teaching Peace
Download the Morning Program here or read it below w/o having to download it. “Out of Our Comfort Zone” Sometimes our greatest growth as persons comes during times when we either intentionally or unintentionally find ourselves outside of our normal comfort zones. Sometimes we need to hear and experience things that make us uncomfortable so … Continue reading “Out of Our Comfort Zone”
Download The Morning Program here or read it below without having to download it. Our experiences and understandings of wilderness are quite varied. For some, wilderness is a place of life threatening danger. For others, it is a place of trial and temptation. Some look at wilderness as wasted land that needs to come under … Continue reading “Time in the Wilderness”
This Sunday, Oct 9, 2022 No Adult Forum Today NO Morning Assembly TODAY 9:30 am – until we’re finished Gathering In Person working in many rooms “Labor of Love Sunday” Everyone working together A few times per year, our congregation needs to take care of the things that Minnie can’t manage in weekly housekeeping. Please join in … Continue reading “Labor of Love Sunday”
Download The Morning Program here or read it below without downloading Stages of Faith or Spiritual Development The Rev. Walter Norris, leading In 1981, James Fowler, a Methodist Theologian at Emory University, developed the idea of a developmental process of human faith or spirituality. We will consider the different stages that endure throughout a person’s … Continue reading Stages of Faith or Spiritual Development
Download the Morning Program HERE This morning for our third Peace Sunday we continue this special series based on the book Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World by Ken Beller and Heather Chase by taking a look at leaders who ‘live peace’: Mother Theresa and Thich Nhat Hanh, two well-known individuals. Their lives … Continue reading Peace Sunday #3: Living Peace
Download The Morning Program here or read it below w/o downloading. Of his morning discourse, Mark writes: Each generation seems to find ways to perpetuate war in our world, leading us to wonder if true peace will ever be possible. In this discourse, I will explore the factors and conditions that might bring us to … Continue reading “Peace-building in a War Torn World”
Download the morning program here or read it without downloading below. Nine Eleven: The Noun The Worship Team, leading It was a Tuesday when Nine Eleven became a noun. Since then, it has fallen on a Sunday only three times, in 2005, 2011 and this year. America began as an experiment and as these widely divided … Continue reading Nine Eleven: The Noun
Download The Morning Program here or read it without downloading below. Of his discourse, Mark writes: Martin Luther King said, “True peace is not nearly the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.” Creating justice is not a passive enterprise. It requires action, and sometimes it requires direct action that presses creatively on … Continue reading “The Creative Tension of Justice Making”
