May we join together in a contemplative Christmas Eve service. Together, we will honor this special holiday with a homily, readings, hymns, scripture, and a much beloved Silent Night candle ritual. Join us in celebration and reverence as we spend a meaningful evening together.

Hanukkah celebrates a time of abundant miracles. This Sunday, we celebrate three: the wonder that the Jewish people made a choice, against all odds, to light that first flame; that there was a quiet spark within guiding them to do so; and that the light inexplicably multiplied. How can these miracles imbue our lives with deeper meaning and an ever stronger faith?

Mysticism, as a way to experience the world, allows us to contemplate the mystery of the relationship between the finite and the infinite. Adherents believe that God is part of everything that is and ever was. The divine is a mystery that we best understand when we realize we do not understand it; it is an essence we intuit when immersed in wonder and awe. How…