Hey folks – housekeeping first. As you may have noticed, we just had two alt.Sundays in a row, but with Kids Table for both. This Sunday, which would normally be an alt.Sunday, kinda isn’t. We’ll have Community Time, music, and a Talky Bit…but no Kids Table programming. Let’s not call it anything, and just get together and enjoy having good company…

Let’s get together at VA Cafe (171 McDermot) at 10:45 a.m. to see if we can make sense of that subject line. I’m not going to unpack it at all in this email, because…that would be the whole Talky Bit. Come with your mind and heart open to sharing a slice of your life with others, making some music together, exploring the relationship between religi…

Hey folks – Just a quick note this week to let you know what’s up in our gathering this week. Most of you already know the logistics (10:45 a.m, VA Cafe, livestream here, podcast here later in the week). It’s officially and alt.Sunday, but because we had music last week, we’ll have a Talky Bit this week. You don’t need to care about this, but I lik…

Hey folks…I expect I’ll have some company when I say that I’m tired of all the hate that seems to dominate our media spaces these days and that seems in danger of poisoning the water of our “every-day-ness” as well. One of my friends likes to say that “the antidote to bad culture is good culture”, so I’m going to take a cue from that to muse a bit …

Hey folks…this a longer blurb than usual because it has extra info regarding Not Quite Christmas. If you care about that, read to the end. I know that we all experience this season differently. For some, it’s a time of connection, joy and celebration. For others, it’s a slog through a dark and complicated canyon of depression. And for many of us, i…

Ever wonder why we do Souper Sundays? (And yes-this week is one of those.) I suppose the answer could be “ for the perogies” and that would be enough, but I suspect there are some other human hungers that a morning like this can feed. We will meet at VA Cafe at 10:45, catch up on our lives with some Community Time, and muse a bit about what makes f…

Hey folks. This week our gathering will include music, Kids Table, some time to be still (an increasingly rare opportunity), and a Talky Bit for our consideration. In the Talky Bit we’ll be returning to our exploration of what ethics and morals might look like beyond the bounds of religion. In particular, we’ll begin to dig into the possibility tha…

Hey folks – this is a Full Circle Sunday, so we can look forward to the opportunity to connect in Community Time, sing together, have something for the youngest members of the community, and dig into something challenging in the Talky Bit. We’ll meet at 10:45 a.m. at VA Cafe. We’ll livestream here and podcast here later in the week. In the Talky Bi…

I’m guessing, but my guess is that “healing” wasn’t likely included as a reason for most of the field trips any of us have been on. Personally, I can think of one noteworthy exception, which is the last time we gathered as a group at the Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest. This Sunday we are planning to revisit that experience, with some additional …

Hey folks – I hope your long weekend was a good one, and I’m looking forward to being back in a shared space with you. We’ll gather at VA Cafe at 10:45 a.m. to share what songwriter Leonard Cohen once called ” a slice of…life” with one another, and to reflect a bit on some possible lessons being outdoors might teach us about our deep human drive to…