Topic: Peace

Peace Through Understanding

This Service will be held ONLINE ONLY due to the weather.

Why? Oh, why are things this way? Why am I feeling this way? Why? Why? Why?

Why? This is the worrisome question we ask when we are bewildered, when things don’t go as planned, or … read more.

Now, I Am Become Death

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” These words were spoken by Robert Oppenheimer on the occasion of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He named the weapon Trinity after a John … read more.

Summer Sunday Forum: A Divided Nation

Much of the division we are experiencing in our land is our inability to come to terms with what happened 160 years ago, our Civil War, which was our nation’s greatest crisis and carnage. As the great Southern writer, William Faulkner said, “The past is … read more.

Peace During War

Michael Wilder, Group Violence Intervention Coordinator for the City of Kalamazoo, will present and discuss his mini-documentary Peace During War about two former gang members, who made peace after almost 20 years of conflict. Through forgiveness, reconciliation, and education, these former gangsters are changing the … read more.

A Zoom Christmas Eve

The theme for our shared time on Christmas Eve will be Peace. We will read poems, meditate on peace, and sing our favorite Christmas Carols in hopes that peace, reason, and love will be the strongest voices for the years to come.

This service will not … read more.