Hey folks – it’s time to get your winter self out from under the covers to be with people! Or, if that’s not your story, it’s another opportunity to get together to explore what we believe. Either way, it would be lovely to see you at VA Cafe this Sunday at 10:45 a.m. We will have a chance to share a slice of our lives with one another, to sit in s…

Hey folks – this coming Sunday is, of course, Easter. Although ancient liturgical calendars don’t mention this fact, it’s also an alt.Sunday. So, because in the unique orbit of The Table an alt.Sunday means anything could happen, we’re going to have some breathing, some Community Time, a short Talky Bit and a long feast and hangout time. A very “Ta…

Ah yes. This is the weekend to “spring forward”. I will confess that I wasn’t exactly feeling spring vibes while I was clearing our most recent snowfall, but the pragmatic part of me knows that the earth needs the moisture. And I do long to see the green things again, so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow – as long as it’s followed by let it mel…

Hey folks – with my apologies for the late notice, this is both a Full Circle Sunday (Kids Table is ON for the third week this month!) AND a Souper Sunday! So many good things at once! Something I was reading this past week posited the idea that our increasingly fractured culture could be mended in no small part by us learning how to talk with one …

Details first – this Sunday will be a Full Circle Sunday. I know…that’s a change in rhythm. If the regular pattern of second and fourth Sundays being Full Circle is one you plan around, regard this as an exception. So – here’s our schedule for the balance of February, including info about Kids Table dates: Feb 4th (this Sunday) – Full Circle Sunday…

Hey folks – it’s a rhetorical question, but have you ever felt misunderstood? It can be rather painful, especially if we’ve extended ourselves on someone else’s behalf and it fell flat, or even worse seemed to cause hurt or harm. When it comes to living love, learning how (and why) to address the gap between what we intended and what someone else e…

Some days I feel like we’re surrounded by hate. My head knows that isn’t true, and I’m grateful to say that my life experience also tells me that isn’t the whole story. But if I choose to attend to the news or even to what sort of topics of conversation seem to come most quickly to many of us, a strong feature is often world events that appear to b…

Hey folks – I’m going to put several details at the end of this blurb, and I would encourage you to read it all because it contains particulars about our seasonal gatherings that you should be aware of. I’m not sure how it works in your space, but in ours it is around this time of year that gifts start showing up. There’s a bit more secrecy about w…

Hey folks – this week we’re going to dive head first into a couple of ancient examples of the evolution of belief as well as touching on some contemporary examples of what can happen when we hold old ideas as non-negotiable, even in the face of mounting evidence that they need to change. I won’t unpack that in the blurb – that’s what the Talky Bit …

Hey folks – this is an alt.Sunday. To me, that feels a bit like an occasion for opening a gift – one where you know it’ll be good because it’s been thoughtfully chosen with you in mind, but you don’t know what it actually is until you tear off the paper. This Sunday, the gift comes to us courtesy of Karen Johnson. Karen will be taking us for a walk…