Read this week’s issue of our newsletter here: The Weekly Liberal May 12

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May is a season of regrowth. It is when spring really kicks into high gear. A time when the world around us comes alive again and some of us tell stories through what we cultivate. It is a time when we return to the earth because the ground is ready to receive us. Having released the cold hardness of winter, new life bursts forth, new blossoms telling the story of their time in seed and what they are becoming above ground. It is a story of life, of brightness and color, growth and joy which permeates the air. But it is short-lived, as is every life, really. The flowers of spring depart quickly for the sturdier growth of summer, and it can be easy to forget the frost-defying crocus and the sudden blink-and-it’s-gone burst of lilacs.

At a time when the stories we tell shape our world in palpable ways, the question who lives, who dies, who tells your story calls to us to grab hold of the chorus, to blend our voices and tell a richer, bigger, more multilayered and sometimes far more complex story of who we are and who we can be together.

May Worship:

Sunday, May 1, 9 & 11 a.m.
Earth Day & New Member Welcome

Sunday, May 8, 9 & 11 a.m.
Child Dedication

Sunday, May 15, 9 & 11 a.m.
Building Rededication

Sunday, May 22, ONE SERVICE at 10 a.m. at Minnehaha Park
Youth Sunday

Sunday, May 29, 10 a.m. worship
DRUUMM worship

Read this week’s issue of our newsletter here: The Weekly Liberal April 21

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Work by renowned photographer Wing Young Huie will be on view in the Social Hall gallery April 17 through May 29, 2022. Photos are from his award-winning book Chinese-ness: The Meanings of Identity and the Nature of Belonging.

Wing photographed and interviewed people in China as well as locals of Chinese descent. The perspectives you will view in his photos provide humor and irony, as well as cultural exploration. His photos give each of us an opportunity to explore our own identities. 

Read this week’s issue of our newsletter here: The Weekly Liberal April 7

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“You’re broken down and tired
Of living life on a merry go round
And you can’t find the fighter
But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out”

Andra Day reminds us that we will rise up. Rise like the day.

Every day we rise. Sun up, sun down, sun up again. Like the tides. Like the phases of the moon. Like the seasons. We rise. And, sometimes, we get knocked down. Sometimes we travel to the edge, sometimes we fall off the edge for a while. And as the poet writes, “yet still we rise.” 

This month, we look at all of the many ways we rise. Rise above heartbreak, rise after getting knocked down. The everyday rise of those who care for others and those who care for the world. This month we learn the many ways that we rise, together.