All services can be attended in-person or live on YouTube on Sundays at 10:30 ET. Previous services are also available to stream.
March 15, 2026
Nothing About Us Without Us
Speaker: Dr. Chris Foss
University of Mary Washington professor Chris Foss will begin by providing some brief background on the history of disability, the disability rights movement, and Disability Studies. With that context in mind, he will focus on highlighting the need for (more and better) literary representations of disability, followed by an accounting of some of his own attempts (as both a teacher and a scholar) to contribute to this important cultural shift.
March 22, 2026
A Tibetan Monk’s Spiritual Journey
Speaker: Susan Degnan
“I practiced Buddhism for eight years, including retreats and temporary ordination in the Burmese monastic tradition. During travels through India and Tibet, I wrestled with the meaning of ‘Buddha nature’ — the idea that awakened awareness is already present within us.” Susan joins us to reflect on impermanence, humility, non-attachment, and how directly confronting ourselves can cultivate resilience, self-love, and a deeper recognition of the sacred in others.
March 29, 2026
COFFEE HOUSE: The Perfect Fellowship
Moderator: David Brown
Here’s what I’ve learned:
when you take someone’s grief and mix it with their power, adding their deepest passions, and then give it time… You don’t get followers. You don’t get volunteers. You start to assemble, to become family.
And family is messy. And family is beautiful.
And we fight like hell for family.
April 5, 2026
Flower Communion
Speaker: David Brown
What might happen if every Easter we celebrated resurrection, not merely as the resuscitation of a single corpse nearly two millennia ago, but more—as the ongoing resurrection of all humanity? Easter could be the annual affirmation of our ongoing resurrection from violence to peace, from fear to faith, from hostility to love, from a culture of consumption to a culture of stewardship and generosity … and in all these ways and more, from death to life.
