Meditations on themes of Advent week 4: Love

Below we offer the 8 categories of love as understood through a Greek lens: eros (erotic love), philia (friendship), agape (universal love), ludus (playful love), storge (family-kinship love), philautia (healthy self-love), mania (obsessive love), pragma (mature, enduring love). From which forms of love do you draw your strength and connection? All You Need Is Love[…]

Christmas-y Acts of Kindness

DROP OFF 2018 CALENDARS for GIBSON CENTER These calendars are collected and distributed to seniors through the Gibson Center, including delivery out to people receiving Meals on Wheels in their homes. Bring them to church and add them to the cardboard collection box in Parish Hall at the church. SIGN UP to PROVIDE MEALS for[…]

Reflections on the focus of Advent three: Joy

Advent calls us, this week, to anticipate and seek JOY. Is this an emotion — or experience — that we are capable of growing and nurturing through spiritual practice? Is it an inner state of being or a way of engaging with the external world? Perhaps both are true. This reflection offers different perspectives, but[…]

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