Rev. Leuchtenberger is our senior minister. Read more.
As the hymn proclaims, when the fire of commitment sets our mind and soul ablaze, when our hunger and our passion meet to call us on our way, when we live with deep assurance of the flame that burns within, then our promise finds fulfillment and our future can begin. Yet, what happens when those … Continue reading The Back-Fire of Commitment
Leading a committed life wages a silent rebellion against the “I’m Free to Be Myself” culture of individualism that is still the defining feature of our age – David Brooks reminds us in his book The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. What ultimately matters in life emerges when we are ready to … Continue reading Let This Be Our Covenant
When troubled we tend to point a finger – away from ourselves – not always aware that pointing a finger tends to leave three fingers pointing back at us. We may not be able to solve what’s troubling us on our own, yet healing the world requires owning our part, taking responsibility for all what … Continue reading Committing to Nothing
A home is so much more than a physical space. What makes a physical space a home depends in large part on the relationships that can flourish in that space. A home does not stand in isolation. A home is embedded in a web of other homes, interconnected, open, yet with boundaries that provide the … Continue reading At Home with Our Neighbors
When our homes are in disarray our well being suffers. For too long we have treated the earth as primarily a resource for satisfying our material cravings. As a result, the earth is in disarray, struggling, reflecting our own addiction to the sensation of having new and more stuff. What if we treated the earth … Continue reading Treating Earth Like Home
As we re-gather in our beautiful sanctuary for our annual water communion service may we all experience a sense of coming home, finding a home, being at home – within ourselves, in the spirit of our community, and through the shared yearning for a peaceful home for all. As the poet Wendell Berry writes: “And … Continue reading Welcome Home, Here, Now – A Water Communion Service
During our annual Flower Communion service, we are reminded once more of the life-sustaining role that sharing and a generous heart play as we journey with each other through the roller-coaster that is life. Please bring a flower if you can though we’ll have plenty of extras. Our 12th grade youth will bridge and we … Continue reading From This We Live
Life without a sense of wonder is like music without sound or rhythm. Opening ourselves to the awe of what is known and unknown is central to us as spiritual beings, to the experience of the divine, to glimpsing that which transcends the confines of who we think ourselves to be as mortals bounded by … Continue reading Putting On Your Wonderwear
What if we thought of the Earth as a storyteller? What would she tell us? How can we prepare to listen? What lessons might we learn – as we strive to create healthy relationships with each other and with the earth? Which Earth-told stories have been important to you? Let Michael know. Today we also … Continue reading Listen to Your Mother (Earth)
Throughout human history, we have variously celebrated, feared and embraced the multiple, and often paradoxical, traits that characterize the one earth we all share as our home. The earth gives life and it takes life. The earth nourishes and withholds. The earth is beautiful and violent, peaceful and uncaring, fragile and resilient. And whether we … Continue reading Creator, Destroyer, Sustainer
