Join Rev. Chip for our annual Vespers service (a pause from the holiday hustle-bustle, with singing and silence).

Marginalized people have led progress for centuries. How might those closer to the center assist in widening the circle? Share the Plate Offering: Dining for Women A Reflection Circle will follow the service.

Money cannot buy happiness, nor adequate self-care, nor significantly meaningful gifts. Rev. Chip’s annual anti-consumerism rant. A Reflection Circle will follow

We’ll celebrate the centennial Armistice Day (and its more recent incarnation, Veterans Day). There may be a few words about the election results, too. A Reflection Circle will follow the service.

Proponents call “green burial” a more natural, more economical, and more meaningful alternative to embalming, cremation, etc. Does it live up to those claims? Where can we be buried “greenly” in Michiana? Don’t forget to bring a picture or small memento to display, for our annual tolling of the names of our Beloved Dead. Reflection … Continue reading Green Burial

From Channing’s “Great End of Religious Education” (“not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own”) to Kimberly Sweeney’s “Death of Sunday School” we’ll ponder the future of faith formation. Share the Plate Offering: YWCA Domestic Violence Fund Reflection Circle: 11:50 am

As we engage in the annual Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day conversation, we’ll explore whether and how we might reclaim a positive white identity.

We’ll celebrate our annual water service, as the unofficial beginning of the program year. We can learn much from our river, and from each other. Bring some water to share, and a story about why that water is important to you. Share the Plate Offering: A Rosie Place

What will happen to Labor Day, if all the laborious jobs (and many others) are taken over by robots? Will it lead to a second renaissance of human creativity and leisure? Will humans lose purpose (and power) without steady jobs?