Greetings Westwood Community, Peter doesn’t want Jesus to go to Jerusalem, and he lets him know. Jesus responds, “Get behind me, Satan.” Jesus knows that he must turn his face towards his own death; he has lived a life of dangerous, radical love, and this is...
Sunday, Mar 24, 2024 Rev. Molly Vetter...
LAST WEEK: Could we keep the beach ball up in the air for 7 times? Or would we need to forgive each other 70 x 7 for missing the mark? We did it! With lots of apologies in between. THIS WEEK: This Sunday, families please meet...
Greetings Westwood Community, On Easter, we get to open our doors to welcome our community to share the joy that is at the heart of our faith tradition as we celebrate resurrection. In a world that's so often divided by age and race, economic status, gender,...
Sometimes it’s hard to decide what path to take. Sometimes our stubbornness gets us walking in a maze, with many dead ends. Sometimes the path to God’s heart is very simple even if it’s not particularly straight. Last Sunday we experienced the labyrinth with candlelight...
Greetings Westwood Community, During Lent, we've been on a journey--the Loft has been talking about Pilgrimage, the Sanctuary and our young people have been following Peter's Wandering Heart, and our children even walked a labyrinth last Sunday. Since a beloved undergrad comparative religion class gave me...
Jesus’ asking, “Who do people say that I am?” brought us into trying to figure out who Jesus says that WE are. We looked into mirrors and made self-portraits. We wrote down words that define us. And we sang “Kumbaya" BEAUTIFULLY with the adult choir...
Greetings Westwood Community, Today, I have two things that I want to say: First, I want to affirm our deep commitment to interfaith cooperation and respect, and our persistent opposition to antisemitism and hate speech. I am grateful that our church campus is located so close to...
