This Sunday invites reflection on the sacred work of transformation — personal, cultural, and planetary. Drawing inspiration from Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s Hospicing Modernity and Outgrowing Modernity, the service explores how endings can be acts of care: tending to what must pass so that new ways of being may take root. Thus, we honor the grief and grace … Continue reading When The Ending Is Just The Beginning

In every age, the soil of the world grows hard with tyranny—systems that choke the tender shoots of truth, compassion, and imagination. Yet even in such seasons, the Spirit calls gardeners. Like Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, we are summoned to cultivate beauty and resistance in unlikely ground. Her nursery rhyme, whimsical on its surface, hides … Continue reading On Contrarian Gardening: Or, How To Sow Seeds of Revolution

This Sunday, in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), we remember the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust and widen the circle of our remembrance to include all who were targeted by Nazi terror: Roma and Sinti people, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, political dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and countless others whose lives were deemed … Continue reading Remembering As Resistance