This meditative service will honor the complexity of feelings during the holidays. Grief is often the hardest emotion to express when it seems that everyone around you is happy or merry. Whether you are experiencing personal or collective grief, this is an opportunity to come together and hold one another in a community of caring. This special service will offer readings and music, meditations and candle lighting.Join Rev. Bev, Pastor Doreen Oughton from Franklin Federated … Continue reading Blue Christmas Vesper Service

Join Rev. Bev as she explores holiday traditions around the globe. From roller-skating to Mass to eating KFC as the Christmas meal, from where hanging tinsel on your tree may have started to the joy of finding the Christmas pickle, these traditions and folk tales provide a sometimes poignant and sometimes whimsical look at holidays near and far.

Navigating a world we separate into bad and good, darkness and light can leave us exhausted and feeling hopeless. Let’s change that narrative as we explore how dark can be nourishing and the many ways we move between light and darkness.

We seem to be surrounded by lies and the re-writing of history more and more these days. What happens when we hold on to the actual true stories of our past and acknowledge the painful periods our history? How would it change things if we tell ourselves and our children the truth about history? Let’s start with Thanksgiving. What do we know, what do we learn as children and what difference does it make?

In her meditation, “Saying Grace,” the Rev. Kathleen McTigue reminds us “wise women and men from every [faith] tradition teach that gratitude is at the heart of the spiritual life because it leads us to all the rest.” As we approach the season of thanksgiving, let’s explore this idea and decide for ourselves if gratitude is and should be at the core of our spiritual lives.