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The Spiral Path: A Ritual for Easter and Earth Day
April 19, 2025

The Spiral Path: A Ritual for Easter & Earth Day

1. Begin What’s just starting to happen in you? What’s so new that only you can see it? Instructions for Engagement: Take one seed and hold it. Just one. Carry it with you through the rest of the spiral. This is not planting time. Just holding time. Feel the weight…

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April 17, 2025

The Spiral Path

My grandfather used to wake me with a song. “I can’t get’m up, I can’t get’m up, I can’t get’m up in the morning!”Goofy. Loud. Unapologetic.And every time—like clockwork—I rose. Each school day of my childhood, he made waking up more than survival.It became an event. A joke. A ritual.

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A message from Rev. Jen Crow, Senior Minister
April 10, 2025

Islands of Peace

“There is within each of us the possibility of an Island of Peace within one’s own soul.” - Howard Thurman

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April 3, 2025

The Weekly Liberal, Apr. 3, 2025

"The Art of Gathering" | New Member Sunday April 6 | Budget Input Meeting | Hands Off Mobilization | We The People Concert Tix | Talent & Trivia Night

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April 2, 2025

The Art of Gathering

From a potluck for trans and gender-expansive folx to a vigil table for Palestinian lives, the way that we gather matters.

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