What if beauty isn’t only something we encounter but also something we become? Join our Ministerial Intern, Brigitta Vieyra, in surfacing the ways our faith community is filled with beauty. A beauty that does more than decorate our lives by demanding we go deeper and deeper still, beckoning us all towards building beloved community.

Join us for our treasured Flower Ritual--a time to celebrate community and our connection to each other. For this year's Flower Communion, we are going to be celebrating with an acknowledgement of the Chicano heritage unique to the Phoenix, Arizona and borderlands areas.

It has been a year since we re-opened to in-person worship. During the pandemic time and the year since, a lot of things stayed the same, a lot of things changed and a WHOLE lot of people did amazing things. We'll celebrate just how much we've accomplished while also looking forward. We will follow the service with an all-community lunch where you can gather and connect with your neighborhood groups and each other.

Our genders are intertwined with our cultural, sacred, and religious selves. From a non-binary perspective, from Rev. Sky’s perspective, what spiritual lessons exist in the lifelong journey of gender?

There is no doubt that we are at a liminal time in our congregation. The pandemic changed some core things about how we function and made us take some huge steps in building and supporting community. So what now? We will do a little dreaming, a little planning and a lot of loving as we envision our future together.

Islam is a beautiful, rich religion that is practiced by almost 25% of people on Earth. We will look at Islam from a liberation lens and see how it can bring us hope in these challenging times.