December 24, 2022
For the first time since December 24, 2019, we were able to have a candlelight service for Christmas Eve! Lots of beautiful music.
December 18, 2022
For the second year in a row, DRE Thea Shapiro and the congregation had great fun with a “no rehearsal” and alternative pageant, adapted from Norman Allen’s work.
December 24, 2021
Our (hybrid) Christmas Eve Service was a little different this year! We started out inside, then ended outside by the fire pit so that we could have some singing. It was lovely!
December 19, 2021
Director of Religious Education Thea Shapiro led the whole congregation through a jolly no-rehearsal pageant! We had lots of fun.
December 5, 2021
During “red light” conditions, we worshiped online-only. Guest preacher and FCU deacon Cindy Malley discusses what Christmas means to her as an agnostic.
December 24, 2020
On December 24, 2020, we had a virtual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service on the Zoom platform. If you watch on YouTube, click on “show more” to see the Order of Service.
December 22, 2019
On Sunday, December 22, 2019, my short sermon was “An Apocryphal Christmas”. This video starts with two excerpts from “apocryphal” nativity stories, the first from the Arabic Infancy Gospel (at 0:00, read by Deacon Cindy Malley), and the second from the Gospel of James (at 3:52). The short sermon begins at 9:38.
December 24, 2018
My Christmas Eve homily for 2018. Is your heart prepared to do the work of Christmas?
December 24, 2017
As for the Bible’s stories, like every story their truth depends upon their listeners.
December 10, 2017
While we do not know who Jesus really was, this does not mean he was made up out of thin air. He is not a complete invention or fabrication. What the New Testament gospels and letters give us is an interpretation of a man who will always remain hidden behind a veil of history, never to be fully revealed.