Beginning this week we will have a kind of arc of continuity for the eight services Melissa O’Brien has with us between now and the end of July. The idea is to (hopefully) guide the congregation through this time of transition, helping us reflect on change, identity, resilience, and community. The plan is to help … Continue reading Crossing the Threshold
Following the deaths of her four children, eminent Saratogian Katrina Trask (1852–1922) devoted several decades to activism in various causes. A particular focus was addressing the vast divide between Gilded Age high society, and the servants and laborers who made the upper class lifestyles possible. In 2014 local visual artist Rumara Jewett researched sculptor Daniel … Continue reading Katrina Trask and Social Justice
What does it mean to love something into freedom? Melissa offers a Mother’s Day reflection exploring the central tension of mothering: that genuine love and good parenting requires nurturing another human toward the very independence that takes them away from you. OOS 5-10-26