Soul Medicine for a Fractured World: Healing, Justice, and the Path of Wholeness by Liza J. Rankow This book club meeting will be on the fourth Sunday due to a wonderful opportunity to have the author present for a question and answer session after the sermon she gives us that day. Combining the insightful analysis … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club February 22, 2026
Sunday, January 25th, 2026, 12 – 1:30 PM Tot Green Room The Climate Committee will be joining in with this lettering writing campaign. Food will be provided, so please bring a pen, an attitude, and your appetite!
As you warm yourself in your home, imagine those who have no home. They depend on folks like us to help keep themselves warm and dry. Please look through your belongings and find clean jackets, sweaters, warm shirts, pants, shoes, socks, gloves hats and blankets. Bring them to church and fill the bins in the … Continue reading Please Remember Your Unhoused Neighbor
You can help your food insecure neighbor by filling the bin in the back of the sanctuary. Each Sunday bring a bag of sugar, cooking oil, canned fruit, canned beans, soup, granola bar, oatmeal, cereal, tuna fish, pasta, peanut butter, coffee, a gluten free item or sugar free item. Place it in the bin and … Continue reading Neighbors With Food Insecurity Is Growing
The Social Justice Committee has announced that the tithing recipient for the first half of 2026 will be Centro Legal de la Raza. Founded in 1969, Centro Legal de la Raza is a legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income, immigrant, Black, and Latinx communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. … Continue reading Jan.-Jun ’26 Tithing Recipient: Centro Legal de la Raza
The Giving Tree is in place in the Sanctuary. We will be collecting donations of warm socks, scarves, hats, sweatshirts and jackets. Take a tag from the tree and bring your items to the Sanctuary by December 28th. Socks needs to be new and all additional items should be new, or clean and in good … Continue reading 2nd Annual Giving Tree
The Climate Committee would like to invite new members to the committee. If interested, please contact Gabe Meeker at donandgabe@gmail.com
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, forging an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory, and resilience on the margins of society. The Social Justice Book Club meets on the first Sunday of the month at noon. We meet in … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read January 4, 2026
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile DeWeaver Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver argues that … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read December 7, 2025
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate This novel is inspired by the actual “Lost Friends” newspaper advertisements placed by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War as they searched for lost family members. It follows two intertwined storylines: one set in 1875 and one in 1987. The Social Justice Book Club meets on … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read November 2, 2025
