A Warning Against Certainty

September 10, 2016 0 Community Action, Questioning Faith, Sermon Recap, Sermons by Patricia Calahan

Last Sunday, Philemon, the shortest book of the Bible, made it’s regular appearance in the Lectionary. This short letter has a dark history as it was historically used by slave holding Christians in the American South as evidence of God’s support for slavery. In this letter, they argued, Paul sent Onesimus, a runaway slave, back […]

Confirmation Celebration

May 18, 2016 0 Questioning Faith, Unchurched by Patricia Calahan

We celebrated Confirmation on Sunday. We Confirmed 6 youth, who organized and led our worship service. I found this class to be extremely inspiring. They each participated in this process thoughtfully and genuinely. Each of them shared meaningful statements of faith. These statements included thoughts on how church is a place where you always know […]