Dear lover of art, It’s been a long two years since we were last able to celebrate Art in August in Winchester. Finally, we are back! We are celebrating not just the return of this month-long festival of art in the shops of our downtown Cultural District, but also the growing number of cultural […]
Join us on Sunday at 10 am in Ripley Chapel or online for worship! Sarah Gallop will be preaching on the day’s lectionary — Jesus Visits Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38-42). Her sermon “Educating Martha (and me)” will focus on trying to find the balance between the human tendency to always be “do-ing” and the […]
Today is a day to celebrate all non-binary people of the world. This is the non-binary pride flag created by Kye Rowan in 2014. The yellow stripe represents people whose gender exists outside of the binary, the white stripe people with many or all genders, the purple people with genders considered a mix of male […]
This summer we are partnering with Youth Villages, the same organization we work with for the Christmas Giving Tree. Youth Villages has an annual drive where they collect backpacks and school supplies to help children in their care prepare for school. They believe children do well when they have the tools they need. A new […]
Dear Friends: Early each morning, I meet with an ecumenical but politically and geographically diverse group via zoom for Centering Prayer and reflection. Yet since the recent Supreme Court rulings our group has been reeling. As one international group participant recently observed, “You Americans may think that the rulings handed down by your highest […]
Dear Congregation, I have been unsure what words I might offer that could be of value in this national moment. I considered just leaving it be and yet conversations over this weekend with women in my life and in our congregation have revealed how gutted, violated, and full of fear many of our sisters and […]
Join us in Ripley Chapel or online at 10am this Sunday for our first summer worship service. This week our theme is following Jesus and Dr. Elizabeth Page will be preaching on Luke 9:51-62. After worship, weather permitting, we’ll have some light refreshment outside near or in the Reno Garden. We hope you’ll join us.
Our beautiful Ripley Chapel has already been set up and is awaiting your presence for our summer worship services starting Sunday, June 26th at 10am. We have a wonderful slate of preachers from around the congregation and musicians who will offer the word of God in spoken word and song. We won’t have nursery care […]
Come join us for our final worship service of the year in the sanctuary this Sunday at 10am in-person or online. Our Bell choir, the Carilloneers, will be playing and flutist Janet Vaughn will be joining them. In our scripture of the week, we’ll encounter Luke’s version of Jesus and the Gerasene Demoniac and Rev. Will […]
This Sunday, June 19th 2022, marks 156 years since the origin of the Juneteenth holiday on June 19 1866. And it is only the second year that Juneteenth is recognized as a Federal holiday. Perhaps like many white Americans you are not acquainted with Juneteenth’s significance to our nation’s past and our present. Perhaps you […]