On this fifth week in the Easter Season, Holly will preach and Spirit Garage musicians will make music. Classic.
Word.
Join Michelle Lewis each week starting Wednesday to explore the Bible texts that are coming up for Sunday worship. Lots of opportunity to ask questions of the text, notice what stands out and what we might be missing; pay attention to historical, literary and other angles possible within the text. Join on zoom once or come to them all. No experience necessary.
The ZOOM LINK is in the WEEKLY EMAIL or you can write to [email protected].
On this sixth week in the Easter Season, Holly will preach and Spirit Garage musicians will make music. Classic.
It’s the last Sunday in the Easter Season! Holly will preach and Spirit Garage musicians will make music. Classic.
Word.
Join Michelle Lewis each week starting Wednesday to explore the Bible texts that are coming up for Sunday worship. Lots of opportunity to ask questions of the text, notice what stands out and what we might be missing; pay attention to historical, literary and other angles possible within the text. Join on zoom once or come to them all. No experience necessary.
The ZOOM LINK is in the WEEKLY EMAIL or you can write to [email protected].
Contact [email protected] to find out about pre-registering for this event.
Word.
Join Michelle Lewis each week starting Wednesday to explore the Bible texts that are coming up for Sunday worship. Lots of opportunity to ask questions of the text, notice what stands out and what we might be missing; pay attention to historical, literary and other angles possible within the text. Join on zoom once or come to them all. No experience necessary.
The ZOOM LINK is in the WEEKLY EMAIL or you can write to [email protected].
Join us in person or online for our Pentecost service. What will the Spirit bring to our table?
The next book we are reading is called “Being Mortal” written by surgeon Atul Gawande,
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.
Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients’ anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. And families go along with all of it.
In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures – in his own practices as well as others’ – as life draws to a close. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds people who show us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about.
Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows that the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life – all the way to the very end.
Celebrate the start of the summer season in Minnesota at Spirit Garage with Pancake Church. Find a seat with someone who could become a new friend around a Table in the Family Room. We’ll do some of the normal parts of worship and we will have conversations at the table as we feast on pancakes and other yummy bites.
All the fun begins at 10:30. See you there!