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My Spiritual Journey


Date:   August 23, 2026
Speaker:   Lawrence Reichard
Length:   9:10

     Come join us this Sunday in getting to know the spiritual journey of another of the interesting and entertaining members of our congregation, Lawrence Reichard who writes:
      "My life's spiritual journey has been a long, strange trip, with something of a political bent to it.  It has accompanied me in my travels, and it has woven together elements of Catholicism, Quakerism, and Lutheranism - and I look forward to sharing it.”

Come join us this Sunday as we worship and as we hear what I hope will be the interesting tale of my life's spiritual journey, which will wander through strains of Quakerism, Catholicism and Lutheranism. As I wrote in my journey's tale, it has been a long, strange trip – and I invite you to join me on that trip.  So, come, let us worship together.  

The Power of Conspiring


Date:   August 16, 2026
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   13:09

Return Path


Date:   August 9, 2026
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   12:02

      Rev. Amy talks about the power and beauty of being lost and found, the relief of returning to ourselves through surrendering to uncertainty. 
          "Return Path"
           by Lesley Wheeler.
The only way to pray is through my feet, 
earthward, jolted in return by the fizz of a spiking current. 
I never thought a circuit would loop through me,
I believed I was separate, alone, done with gods, but here it is:
I've found a way to pray. Through my feet,
I reach down. There's something animate, mycelial, that touches me back. 
It's a species of love, a thinking-spike, 
a zinging circuit of energy and dirt, blood and spirit-
plutonic conversation, mostly wordless.
The way l've found to pray is through my feet,
sole bared to wooden boards, or rug, or slate, or buggy grass, 
just as you want to press skin to a beloved's, sparking a current, a circuit.
Not that earth loves me, exactly. Matter's what matters.
She ants me to return the mess of my only body,
pray from head through feet as I sink, unthinking ash, into love's circuit.'

Gifts, Magic, and Portals


Date:   August 2, 2026
Speaker:   Frannie Joseph
Length:   10:27

Frannie Joseph details what she believes, and the formative gifts she has gathered through her life's journey so far. 

Love, Poetry, and Other Mountains We Climb


Date:   July 26, 2026
Speaker:   Matt Bernier
Length:   18:47


My Spiritual Journey


Date:   July 19, 2026
Speaker:   Roberta Latham
Length:   17:28

 Roberta offers the spiritual questions we all ask - what we believe and why. And she touches on the existential realm of death, grief, and loss - and is there afterlife? What an opportunity we have during the summer to learn what our peers and fellow congregants wonder about when they are sitting beside us listening to the wisdom of our leaders at other times of the year!

"Writing from the Heart", Excerpt from "Little Sister" Memoir


Date:   July 12, 2026
Speaker:   Marsha Donahue
Length:   6:01

We welcome to our pulpit Ruth Cash-Smith, professional writer, along with Worship Arts member, Marsha Donahue, in another of our offerings to help you get to know our community better. The title illustrates two ways writing may be a spiritual journey, hoping to inspire you to write, too. In this part, Marsha Donohue shares part of her spiritual journey.

Writing for Bread, Writing from the Heart


Date:   July 12, 2026
Speaker:   Ruth Cash-Smith
Length:   10:25

We welcome to our pulpit Ruth Cash-Smith, professional writer, along with Worship Arts member, Marsha Donahue, in another of our offerings to help you get to know our community better. The title illustrates two ways writing may be a spiritual journey, hoping to inspire you to write, too. In this part, Ruth Cash-Smith recounts her life journey as a writer.

Do Anniversaries Matter?


Date:   July 5, 2026
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   12:53

On this weekend when our nation celebrates our 250th anniversary, we'll take some time to honor what is good and right about this place we call home. We'll also dive into the importance of honoring anniversaries of all kinds and the ways in which they can be complicated and challenging, but worthy of our attention. It is through this ritual acknowledgement that we make meaning, through reckoning and reflecting one what brought us together in the first place.

Bends in Our Paths


Date:   June 21, 2026
Speaker:   Susan Coe
Length:   18:17

At what age does it seem I had the best friends? And then, when did that start to break down? In the media, we see the innocence and love of toddlers, youngsters playing sports and music with their besties, those in their twenties and thirties looking as though they’re having the times of their lives.  College, weddings, reunions, even divorces where people thought they’d met the love of their life and then they find love again. There’s TV series about Friends, Thirtysomethings, Parenthood, the Gilmore Girls, Grace and Frankie. But what about when it doesn't happen that way? What if one’s health starts to decline, their family starts to fall apart, or death starts taking away people that were once the center of our lives? How do we jump back in and get another chance where “The Best Is Yet To Come”? And what if it doesn't happen? Ironically the years go faster as we get older, but loneliness comes in slow motion. This starting over happens way differently than it did the first time.
And yet that word friendship - you know it's something that you don't put a dollar sign on, you don't attach a geography, it isn’t always at home, and it really doesn't matter about your job. Friendship is it's own thing that has meaning above everything else. We learn about it early from parents and teachers, and ultimately we are on our own to build our lives around the friends we find and lose along the way. These paths bend to be narrow, wide, steep, or smooth and fretted with gems and rocks. Memories and futures. What’s your friendship story? I’ll tell you mine today.