Click right here Sunday shortly before 10:00 AM to join our next online service. Winter Solstice ; the moment when the Sun “stands still” and the Wheel of Life changes its course of increasing darkness to one of increasing light. That exact moment of stillness calls for attention. Stillness can be calm and comforting. and, in our … Continue reading The Turning of the Solstice Wheel
Click right here Sunday shortly before 10 to join our next online service. How are Covid-19, our 2020 elections, and Transgender Day of Remembrance related to one another? All three are about intensive healing and intentional transitioning leading towards meaningful transformations. Join us as we consider the paths before us. “Healing And Transition = Transformation” Order … Continue reading Healing and Transition = Transformation
Click right here on Sunday at 10 to join your ASC friends online. In all likelihood, you are more resilient than you realize. Since you are reading this, you are a monument to the human ability to cope with change, tragedy, crisis, growth, happiness, grief, turns of fortune, and a host of other challenges. In the … Continue reading “Resilience”
“Kindness Changes Everything”: a lay-led service about being kind. First, let’s be clear, we are not talking about being nice. Nice is sweet, gentle, comfortable. Nice rolls over. Nice doesn’t want to offend. Nice doesn’t make waves. But kindness is so much more. Kindness doesn’t sit still. Kindness sees a need and offers to help. … Continue reading “Kindness Changes Everything”
Please join us as we gather to Ring Out the Old and Ring in the New! We will employ poetry, music, and conversation to reflect and prepare as we welcome 2020. We’ll even take inspiration from the pages of Beowulf and raise our cup in a Viking Toast where we boast of something we are proud of from the … Continue reading Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New
Join us in this lay-lead service as we consider some of the different facets of Wholeness. We will explore the essential needs of being one with Nature, being one with ourselves, being one after being broken, being one in community.
Drawing upon ancient beliefs, this lay-led service will pay homage to the balance of darkness and light as we anticipate the coming of Spring.
Here is an opportunity to reinforce our allegiance to the moral conviction of possibility. Our inspirational resources will include both published and in-house poetry and the words of Martin Luther King Jr. We have all been touched by the vivid commitment to a vision of possibilities in MLK’s infamous “I Have a Dream” speech. Who … Continue reading “Poetic Justice”
Ancient people saw the flow of time as circular, not linear, and the Changing Seasons were understood as a great Wheel, the Wheel of the Year. This Sunday, Dec. 16, we gather to observe the turning of the Wheel as we celebrate the Winter Solstice arriving on December 21st.
Marty Shaw, leader of small group ministry at ASC, shares with us how the practice of active listening changed the dynamic of her church experience and brought greater connection within her community. Our Soul Matters theme for the month of September is “Vision.” What does it mean to be a people of vision? Come envision … Continue reading The power of active listening: building connection, compassion, and presence
