We shared this blog post last year after the time change... and we want to share it again, this year, before the time change. It gets really dark in Tennessee during the fall months. And we should pay attention to how this can mess with our minds, especially with all the bonus anxiety on the airwaves for the elections... These are some defenses and we'll be doing more to pay attention to them together in the coming weeks. Peace! Now that we've "fallen back" it can really feel

We don't have dinner or worship this week because of fall breaks, but we do have some things you can read, or listen to, by UKirkians, Lee Catoe and Meredith Cox... we also added a cool Worship Guide, from our friends at UKirk Ole Miss, to continue our worship theme for this year... check out these great resources for renewal and enjoy your rest! https://youngclergywomen.org/transgender-at-the-world-council-of-churches/ https://gregthompsonmedia.com/out-loud/episodes/105-lee-

This week we used Matthew 25 to talk about service - how and why we do it - and how it is a part of our worship. We thought about what if we treated each other as sacred and how that can shift our ideas about service. That might mean that we recognize the image of God in others or perhaps see ourselves within others. We also discussed how Christians should think of service as an opportunity to meet Jesus (rather than an obligation for salvation). If Matthew tells us that how

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/2019-commission-on-the-status-of-women-now-accepting-applications/ Y'all, check this out. I went this spring and I'm so glad I did... if you can go or know someone who can go... do it! UKirk can help you get there. We'll be doing an information session of sorts during our usual Wednesday coffee hour on October 24th... United Nations Day, which is a real holiday if you ask me! :)

As we continue in our study of Matthew and the elements that make up our worship, this week we focused on the Lord's Prayer... like the sacraments, which we discussed the week previous, this is something that Jesus tells us explicitly to "do"... but He doesn't really offer much else explanation... so, when He says "pray this way" does He mean, these exact words? What about all the different translations then? Or does He mean, pray this type of structure, like how the prayer i