Windows to Our Souls

In great stories of fantasy, there is often a moment of tension where everything is about to change – for the protagonist, the world will never look the same way again- when they face a portal that will change the …

Continue reading

Past and Future Portals

In most places where there is a celebration, Pride month events happen in June…except in Gainesville. I like that ours happen in October when the students with their joy and energy are in town in full force and when the …

Continue reading

Liminal Time

READINGS “Moments Between” by Susan McLauaghlin Notice the moments between one thing and another, the soft delicate shift between two things: the space between awake and asleep, between a bud and a bloom, when the sunrise becomes the day and …

Continue reading

On Not Missing the Meeting

It is so lovely to have this fabulous worship theme, “at the portal” and I thank our many artists for creating doors, windows, edges, thresholds, faces, so many ways inside and outside, and the liminal space between. The word itself …

Continue reading

Turning the Page

This Sunday, we have a Daniel Webster preaching his sermon “Turning the Page.” Join us as he  leads us through a worship portal filled with readings and special music by Art Crummer, Catherine Cake, and Ned Stewart! Click Here for …

Continue reading

Graduate Sunday 2019

Join us as we celebrate our graduating High School Seniors! This service is led by our seven graduates and members of Youth United, and includes a special encore performance by our Retreat Jazz Band, playing “Won’t You Be My …

Continue reading

“Reality of the Unseen”

This is clearly a time of uncertainty. Reforms in institutions that were meant to make society better for all people are crumbling. Political offices that once held esteem are laughable. The economic system is designed so that wealthier keep getting …

Continue reading

Unsophisticated Grace

Andy Bachmann continues our theme, “By the Riverside.” We’ve got beautiful special music offering another perspective on the power of the rivers that we seek, and some more beautiful questions to consider as we dive deeper into a spirit-enriched life. …

Continue reading

Bouyancy

I don’t know about you, but some of the best school days ever were the days the scholastic book orders came home, do you remember these?  I would get out a marker and start circling all the books that were …

Continue reading

Swift Stillness

Our worship services have a new theme, “By the Riverside” and we’re going to kick off this theme with the inspiring and awesome music of the Hogtown Strutters and Andy Bachmann offers some thoughts on how we might find …

Continue reading

Easter on Earth

Once the great theologian Marcus Borg wrote “I sympathize with clergy who preach about Easter to the same congregation for several years. Of course, you say what you think is most important the first time. So what do you say …

Continue reading

Worship In Person or Online

Join us at 10 a.m. in the Sanctuary or live-streamed on YouTube