Sublime

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

challenge, isn’t it, to keep our hearts open and receptive while wrestling with the threat of terrorism, the practice of capital punishment, the genocide of Native people, the social death under slavery?

public mission,

Isaiah 55,

welcomes silence, breath, and movement; and sees justice as key to our survival.

Fourth, and perhaps most important, there is a recognition that building community is a requisite foundation for building a better world.

“The future of this church depends upon bringing life to lost people.”