Jeremiah Kalendae

“Opening to Joy” invites us to consider the joy that is already present in our lives but perhaps goes unnoticed. The holidays are a time when the world seems to be filled with opportunities to slow down and appreciate the small miracles of our lives. Who helps you see the joy in front of you?

It brought me great joy to spend a week visiting my grandmother, family, and friends in Ohio as the scarlet oak, sugar maple, and flowering dogwood trees transitioned to their

Our beautiful Ingathering and Water Communion Service inaugurated the new church year and we are busy with preparations for returning to our sanctuary and our buildings in the coming months.

We gather each year in September as a beloved community and ask what hopes, intentions, and dreams you have for the new church year.

In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world’s ordinary

Storytelling is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud  was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin Easter, Passover, Ramazan, and Earth

Inevitably in our lives we commit ourselves to something, whether worthy or not. The direction and intensity of our loyalties give shape and meaning to our lives. Loyalties, commitments, covenants,