“Hope is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops – at all.” The poet Emily Dickinson’s words will be at the heart of this sermon and service, as we wonder, together: As our bodies age relentlessly, as politicians and pundits screech lies and hate, as the oceans rise steadily and the earth heats, as our children’s schools become battlegrounds, what can we realistically and sensibly hope for? Dare we hope at all? And is hope simply an end in itself, or might it actually be a force of revolutionary transformation? The Rev. Dr. Jane Mauldin hopes to make sense of these questions, or at least not to despair in the attempt.

Tamara Murray will lead the service IN PERSON and on Zoom.

Greeters: Nina Helfert and Judy Frish