Faith United Church of Christ

09/05/2022

"Let your light shine before others, so that they may see
your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." -

05/28/2022

"The church comes into its own when it manifests the Spirit of the crucified and risen Jesus Christ." -

05/21/2022

"Peace for a few is not peace at all, and those who continue to suffer the effects of injustice are most definitely not at peace." -

05/06/2022

Thanks to Kristen Kristy Bohinc for this photo of Oksana Melnychenko and her students, who provided the beautiful music for Wednesday evening's vigil for the National Day of Prayer.

04/30/2022

"Follow me into the future because that’s where I’m waiting for you." -

04/16/2022

"Every is a celebration of the ; every Sunday is the celebration of Christian ; otherwise there would be no Sunday services at all." -

03/20/2022

"With the awareness of our comes the simultaneous awareness of the challenge of living lives in a world." -

03/05/2022

" is what the powerful mete out to the rest of us; is the wrench that the rest of us throw into the gears to stop the cycle of ." -

02/27/2022

"The veil is firmly in place wherever humans see themselves as answerable only to themselves." -

01/30/2022

"...if we are indeed living into a , can we not pray that it be more kind, more patient, and more ready to endure than to inflict?"

01/22/2022

"As we build a , the only parameter we have placed upon ourselves is that we live out our calling as followers of , and we can do that in a myriad of ways." -

01/22/2022

‘In Matthew 5:13 in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, we find this statement: “Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt hath lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden underfoot of men.” In this passage, Jesus describes his followers as salt. Food needs salt in order to be tasty. Life needs understanding, compassion and harmony in order to be livable. This is the most important contribution to life that the followers of Jesus can bring to the world. It means that the Kingdom of Heaven has to be realized here, not somewhere else, and that Christians need to practice in a way that they are the salt of life and a true community of Christians.’
Thich Nhat Hanh
11 October 1926 - 22 January 2022

Thich Nhat Hanh explains that sangha is more than a community, it’s a deep spiritual practice.