The circle of evergreens reminds us that life and love will never end.

I am afraid and exhausted from the constant fear. I don’t know who to trust for information about the virus.

Each week until Christmas, we light a new candle on the Advent wreath, a circle of evergreens.

During Advent, we listen and keep vigil for the promise of things to come.

Week by week, the candles remind us that fear and hopelessness recede as more warmth enters the world.

This ritual was designed as part of a worship service/fire communion. Please see that holiday description for more details. Leader: Today’s service is about letting go, metaphoric cleansing and quenching of thirst, setting of intentions, self-anointing, healing, new beginnings and possibilities.

This is a ritual of caring for one another, couched in terms of struggle and hope.

Introduction to a New Orleans Jazz Funeral Welcome to a new tradition for our church—a New Orleans-style jazz funeral for the old year. This service offers opportunities for reflection on the past year, a chance to “bury” whatever that was negative or hurtful to us in 20xx, and looks forward...

Note: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2016 begins in the evening of Wednesday, May 4 and ends in the evening of Thursday, May 5. This week holds the annual observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. Jewish communities prefer not to call the dreadful events of the 1930's and...