Autumn Equinox, the day of perfect equilibrium between day and night, is a moment to pause, reflect on what needs attending as we cross the threshold to the waning of the year. Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on September 29th, and ends 10 days later on Yom Kippur, a time of deep reflection and soul-searching. … Continue reading A Celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and Rosh Hashanah
Between September 20th and 27th, millions of people around the world will walk out of our workplaces and homes to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels. The web page at globalclimatestrike.net reads: “Our house is on fire – let’s act like it.” In a … Continue reading Change v. Transformation; The Necessity of Discomfort
Our visiting minister (and former minister of ASC), Rev. Patience Stoddard, will join us this morning to share her inspiring experiences as Director of Pastoral Care at New Hampshire Hospital. She will share her views on the injustice of stigma and inadequate care of those with severe mental illness and the spiritual lessons learned inside the … Continue reading “Just Care”
As we return from the many places we’ve visited over the summer, be they far off or in our own back yards, we celebrate our ingathering and the start of another church year. At the center of this service will be the Living Water ritual in which we co-mingle water we have collected from those … Continue reading “In-Gathering: Service of the Living Waters”
One of the ways that All Souls Church strives for justice and equality is by sharing our Sunday offerings with local organizations that serve the Brattleboro community. As we enter another year of our “share-the-plate” calendar, we will highlight the importance of this work in this Sunday’s service. Our guest speaker will be our own … Continue reading “Look For the Helpers”
Members of the ASC Book Group will be reporting on our summer book by Bill McKibben. It is subtitled Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Why does McKibben call it a game? How can we be actively engaged? Christina Gibbons, Linda Hay, Peter Gibbons, and Bob Wyckoff will respond to McKibben’s … Continue reading Falter
Fresh from their travels to The Dakotas and multiple Native American reservations, members of the Interfaith Youth Group will share the issues and experiences they’ve encountered during their recent service trip, and express their gratitude for the support All Souls provided to help make it happen. They also hope to facilitate a conversation after the service to deeper … Continue reading “Home From on the Rez”
Our worship leader this morning, Fernando Ona, has been working on issues of complex trauma domestically and globally in his research, teaching and service as an academic at Tufts University. For part of this summer he has been engaged in a clinical pastoral care education unit at a Trauma 1 Hospital in parallel to his global health research work with … Continue reading Creative Transformation
As our busy summer goes whizzing by, we find ourselves already in August. In ancient tradition, the beginning of August is Lammas (or Lughnasadh), the festival of the harvest of first grains, and an acknowledgment of the partnership between human beings and the Divine. This Sunday we celebrate our awareness that we are the instruments … Continue reading Divine Partnership
Drawing on “The Empathy Effect” by Dr. Helen Riess, All Souls member Diana Martha Clark, DMC, MSW, MA will introduce us to the 7 neuroscience-based keys to understanding and increasing empathy. The latest research on how empathy works from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital has led to a powerful system for understanding and … Continue reading “The Empathy Effect”
