The Racial Justice Task Force has invited Dr. Pepple from The Reframe Institute in Worcester to be our guest speaker. Drawing from 1 Samuel 17 and Isaiah 58, this sermon explores what it means to truly recognize injustice in our communities and within ourselves. While many saw Goliath as an unbeatable giant, David saw something different—an injustice that could no longer be ignored. Together we will reflect on the “giants” of our time: hunger, division, inequality, silence, and systems that harm vulnerable communities. This message challenges us to ask an important question: Have we become so accustomed to injustice that we no longer recognize it when we see it? Through reflection, humility, music, and faith, this sermon invites us to examine our own hearts, stand alongside one another, and courageously confront the giants of our generation. This service will also feature musical selections including "Stand by Me," "Man in the Mirror," and "You Raise Me Up."

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Join Trek Reef in reflection and song on this last Sunday of our first (of two!) years together.

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Bring a flower for our annual Pride and flower communion Sunday featuring special choir music. The choir will sing “Message Out to Sea” by Saunder Choi, a piece celebrating love, refuge, and LGBTQ+ belonging. We will also share music by local composer and musical theater director Kathryn Denney that honors transgender visibility, resilience, and resistance. The flower communion represents the rainbow of diversity of humanity through an exchange of flowers.  

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Henry David Thoreau’s spectral presence inspires this reflection on how we might merge the seen and unseen in the twenty-first century. The awe and appreciation of living near Walden Pond and other sites related to the New England Transcendentalists is never far from how Shana Dumont Garr perceives the world. From 2016 to 2022, she served as curator of Fruitlands Museum, which was once the site of a short-lived Transcendentalist commune in 1843. Her work there included exhibiting objects related to Thoreau, such as the handwritten pages of his essays on nature. Drawing from contemporary philosophers including Jane Bennett, Ivan Gaskell, and David Abram, Shana will discuss how _the material_, like pencils in Fruitland's collection that Thoreau made, and _the ephemeral_, like memories or the experiences of reading and writing, inform each other. The seen and unseen are not opposites, but part of a cycle of belonging and becoming. 

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