Empowerment Begins with Gathering
From 1760 husking bees to today’s Youth Leadership Initiative, our strength has always been community.
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Strengthening the Core
You’ve spent years strengthening everything: your calendar, your commitments, your courage. You’ve carried so much for so long. But your core — your spiritual, emotional, communal grounding — is aching for relationship and renewal.
Taking Back Our Focus
A simple weekend experiment showed me how powerful it can be to step away from our screens.
The Summons: Awakening the Poet-Prophet Within
Do you feel it—an inescapable pull to respond, a sense that silence is no longer an option? This quiet urgency often grows from a deeper disquiet: a hunger for wholeness […]
Youth Leadership and Everyday Resilience
The Youth Leadership Initiative is open for applications! 7th–8th graders in Danbury & Ridgefield can embark on a 9-month journey of growth, action, and community. Learn more about this great program in this week’s message by Dr. Fanta Waterman.
Living the Active Life Contemplatively
Fall is upon us, and with it one of the busiest months of the year. Gone are the summertime rhythms. Yet even with the activities of all upon us, we […]
August as a Time of Excitement… and Transition
Summer fades, and new routines begin. Dr. Fanta Waterman reminds us: transitions are easier when we move through them with community.
Take a Breath!
Our earliest experiences of time shape how we understand and live within it. Think back to your childhood—your family of origin or the environment in which you were raised. How […]
A Poetry Prompt for Now
When the world feels too loud, too heavy, I turn to poetry. Not to escape it, but to name it: To remember I still have a voice.
Living in the In-Between
It’s been a news-filled season. Every morning, we seem to wake up to more disruption. As one friend (who loves fancy words, but then so do I) put it: we live in liminal times.
Liminal. It’s a word we’ve heard a lot in recent years—but what does it really mean?
